A network of people from low socio-economic backgrounds making change in the cultural sector

New members

Are you a museum worker from a working class background?

Museums and organisations

Does your museum or organisation need help to recruit, support and retain working class talent?

Workforce

Working with Royal Holloway University* we have developed tools to help you tackle class inequality within your museum workforce. These are based on the research of Dr Sam Evans and insights from our joint project with Birmingham Museums Trust (BMT).

Manifesto

Without a representative workforce how can your museum serve its communities? Addressing who works in museums leads to long term benefits for audiences, collections and exhibition development.

Projects

Transforming the Stories of Us

As part of the Modern Cockney Festival 2026, Transforming the Stories of Us brought Museum as Muck and the Museum of the Home together for an evening examining how museums shape the stories the UK tells about itself and who gets to tell them.

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Museum as Muck at UCL

Museum as Muck recently delivered a workshop for students on UCL’s MA Archives & Records Management programme, a professionally accredited course for those building careers in the GLAM sector.

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Lives Less Ordinary at Two Temple Place

In 2025, Museum as Muck supported Lives Less Ordinary: Working-Class Britain Re-seen, an exhibition at Two Temple Place that celebrated the richness, complexity and diversity of working-class life and creative expression from the 1950s to today.

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Media

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About

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