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2024 Conference:

Thursday 3rd October

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The AMOT Conference takes place on Thursday 3rd October 2024 at the Council House in Birmingham. 

Our conference gathers the Army Museums Network together to discuss best practice, trends and current or new initiatives in the archive sector in general and for running regimental or corps museums in particular. There will be an array of excellent speakers to encourage discussion around the network. 

Date: Thursday 3rd October 2024

Location: Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B1 1BB

 

Click here to book your tickets.


SPEAKERS

Speakers at the upcoming conference in October include:

  • Iain Standen, CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, which was awarded Gold in the category of ‘Large Visitor Attraction of the Year’ at The Beautiful South Awards for Excellence 2023-2024. In telling the stories of the past, how this also highlights their ongoing relevance and how this can be used to activate discussion and interest in the emerging technologies of the future. 
  • Felix Hale, Director, Tax, Heritage and UK Museums, at Sotheby’s, London, who works with UK museums and galleries on all aspects of their collection management will talk about how museums can both acquire works for their collection and how they can dispose of items that are surplus to requirements.
  • Tom O’Leary, Director of Public Engagement, Historic Royal Palaces, Tom will share some of his top tips for engaging the public based on the highs and lows of his career to date. 
  • Claire Wallace, Curator, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiments Museum speaking on the recently launched refurbishment of their museum at The Keep in Bury St Edmunds. 
  • Jeremy Fowler, Army Heritage – Current funding and other issues, as well as what help the MoD can give to museums 
  • Matthew Holden, Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum – Museums as tourist attractions rather than bastions of military history? 
  • Lt Gen Sir Philip Trousdell, Chairman of AMOT – Updating and shaping our future 
  • Ed Sayer, Co-Founder and CEO, Amazing History Enterprises and AMOT Trustee

Other subjects covered will include: army heritage, measuring impact, commercialisation and digital exploitation.

EXHIBITORS

Our few selected exhibitors include:

  • Inspiring and engaging artwork for visitor maps, signage and books – Colour Heroes 
  • SPONSOR: Next-level strategy, design and delivery services – PLB Ltd 
  • The official licensee of Armour Systems Ltd world class museum display cases throughout the UK and mainland Europe – Dellner Glass Solutions 
  • An end-to-end approach to digitisation and archiving services – Max Communications
  • Award winning film work to inspire, communicate and connect – Squeaky Pedal 
  • SPONSOR: : Holts Military Banking: 
  • Storytelling using RichCast innovative multimedia interactive features – Panivox 
  • Workplace organisation product company – Lista 
  • SUPPORTER: Astonishing exhibition & interpretive design – StudioMB 

For more Conference information and exhibitor enquiries contact Clarinda Snowball on 07801 833043 or email: [email protected]