During 2026
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We Make Museums

A project that focuses on exploring our public collections with an intersectional feminist approach

 

We Make Museums is a three year project funded by Paul Hamlyn and developed by Glasgow Women’s Library. The project is initiating crucial discussions about museum processes and empowering communities to shape collections that speak to their urgent needs and concerns.

Formed in 2024, the We Make Museum’s group has forged solidarity across a diverse range of experiences focusing on Environmental Justice and the continued fight for equality. Group members have worked with staff in GWL and further afield to ask questions about how art comes to be selected for our public collections, using the lens of our changing environment alongside experiences of health inequality, racism and access difficulties.

As part of RSA200 the group will be visiting the RSA collection and speaking to curators to find out more about their processes for selecting artists’ work. The group will be commissioning artists and developing an exhibition in 2026, and will consider where artworks from the RSA collection might speak to this exhibition and project themes. This work will be supported by RSA Academician and GWL architect (as part of Collective Architecture) Jude Barber, who brings a wealth of expertise in collective practice.

 

Find out more about the We Make Museums project here

 

 

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  • About Glasgow Women’s Library

    About Glasgow Women’s Library

    Glasgow Women’s Library is the only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s lives, histories and achievements, with a lending library, archive collections and innovative programmes of public events & learning opportunities. GWL has grown from a small grassroots project into the main hub for information by, for and about women, offering specialized learning, collections and archives.

    A well-used, welcoming and accessible service, we take pride in our genuinely integrated and continually growing communities of users, from professional researchers to those who, for whatever reason, feel remote from culture and learning.