Linnea Wallen
@linneawallen.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology | Researching memory work in museum community engagement activities | (she/her)
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Linnea Wallen
@linneawallen.bsky.social
· Jul 20
My PhD thesis - Memory and Museum Community Engagement - is available online!
The work sits in the intersection(s) of museum studies, memory studies and sociology and it explores memory (work) in three Scottish museum community engagement projects:
eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.50...
The work sits in the intersection(s) of museum studies, memory studies and sociology and it explores memory (work) in three Scottish museum community engagement projects:
eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.50...
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News | House of Memories app launched for veterans living with dementia
National Army Museum partnership uses familiar military objects to spark memories
National Army Museum partnership uses familiar military objects to spark memories
House of Memories app launched for veterans living with dementia - Museums Association
National Army Museum partnership uses familiar military objects to spark memories
www.museumsassociation.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
News | House of Memories app launched for veterans living with dementia
National Army Museum partnership uses familiar military objects to spark memories
National Army Museum partnership uses familiar military objects to spark memories
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🌿 Call for Papers | Oxford 2026 Conference Theme: Museums as Spaces of Healing Museums can emotionally, culturally, and socially heal. How do they achieve this?
🗪 Join us at #Oxford 2026 Conference #callforpapers #icomuk #conference #museum
Submit papers here👉https://buff.ly/BiERQcK
🗪 Join us at #Oxford 2026 Conference #callforpapers #icomuk #conference #museum
Submit papers here👉https://buff.ly/BiERQcK
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌿 Call for Papers | Oxford 2026 Conference Theme: Museums as Spaces of Healing Museums can emotionally, culturally, and socially heal. How do they achieve this?
🗪 Join us at #Oxford 2026 Conference #callforpapers #icomuk #conference #museum
Submit papers here👉https://buff.ly/BiERQcK
🗪 Join us at #Oxford 2026 Conference #callforpapers #icomuk #conference #museum
Submit papers here👉https://buff.ly/BiERQcK
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I wrote this about fighting Section 28 for National Galleries Scotland, part of the brilliant 'Resistance' exhibition - there are some really interesting blogs on there too:
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
For info @womenslibrary.bsky.social
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
For info @womenslibrary.bsky.social
Words of Resistance | Fighting Section 28 and Changing Hearts and Minds by Sue John | National Galleries of Scotland
Continuing our Words of Resistance series, feminist and lesbian activist Sue John, looks back on fighting Section 28, repealing the law and changing hearts and minds 25 years on.
www.nationalgalleries.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I wrote this about fighting Section 28 for National Galleries Scotland, part of the brilliant 'Resistance' exhibition - there are some really interesting blogs on there too:
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
For info @womenslibrary.bsky.social
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
For info @womenslibrary.bsky.social
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My first journal article has officially been published! If you want to know more about trans museology and especially the Museum of Transology, check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A “weapon of survival”: the importance of material culture in trans re/presentation
The Museum of Transology contains the UK’s largest collection of objects re/presenting trans, non-binary and intersex people’s lives. It is a project that fosters and centres community for trans pe...
www.tandfonline.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My first journal article has officially been published! If you want to know more about trans museology and especially the Museum of Transology, check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Excited to be running this Festival of Social Science event in Glasgow, on November 7th. If you are interested in LGBTQ+ equalities work or want to come along and learn more, sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/looking-ba...
Looking Back, Looking Forward: LGBTQ+ Equalities
Let's look back, and look forward together
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October 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Excited to be running this Festival of Social Science event in Glasgow, on November 7th. If you are interested in LGBTQ+ equalities work or want to come along and learn more, sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/looking-ba...
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📢 REGISTRATIONS OPEN! 📢
Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond
📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025
📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis
Registration links below ⬇
Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond
📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025
📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis
Registration links below ⬇
October 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
📢 REGISTRATIONS OPEN! 📢
Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond
📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025
📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis
Registration links below ⬇
Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond
📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025
📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis
Registration links below ⬇
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Join us for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari.
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...
September 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Join us for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari.
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...
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Our friends at @socantscot.bsky.social invite you to a free hybrid talk: Reinterpreting the Past to Explain the Present and Reimagine the Future, with Nelson Cummins on colonial histories in Glasgow Museums.
📆 Thu 2 October, 6-8pm
🎟 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...
📆 Thu 2 October, 6-8pm
🎟 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...
Reinterpreting the Past to Explain the Present and Reimagine the Future
This hybrid talk will be presented by Nelson Cummins, Curator of Legacies of Slavery and Empire at Glasgow Museums.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our friends at @socantscot.bsky.social invite you to a free hybrid talk: Reinterpreting the Past to Explain the Present and Reimagine the Future, with Nelson Cummins on colonial histories in Glasgow Museums.
📆 Thu 2 October, 6-8pm
🎟 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...
📆 Thu 2 October, 6-8pm
🎟 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...
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Live! Pilot study on emotions in the museum & heritage workforce. Curious to reflect on emotions in your role & work? To help test methods for a future project? See survey link below with additional info & invitation to participate @annawoodham.bsky.social qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
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August 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Live! Pilot study on emotions in the museum & heritage workforce. Curious to reflect on emotions in your role & work? To help test methods for a future project? See survey link below with additional info & invitation to participate @annawoodham.bsky.social qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
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🧵@vadundee.bsky.social is hosting a landmark exhibition exploring the tradition of tatreez: Palestinian embroidery. Thread Memory features over 30 historic embroidered garments, accessories, and archival photographs from the 19th century to today. #exhibition #embroidery #palestine
Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine
Explore the history of Palestinian dress and the ancient practice of elaborate hand-embroidery
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August 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🧵@vadundee.bsky.social is hosting a landmark exhibition exploring the tradition of tatreez: Palestinian embroidery. Thread Memory features over 30 historic embroidered garments, accessories, and archival photographs from the 19th century to today. #exhibition #embroidery #palestine
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⚽ In our latest case study, Curator Richard McBrearty shares how the Scottish Football Museum scaled up their 'Football Memories' reminiscence project by building powerful partnerships and connecting with experts: www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/case-study/f...
Football Memories: from pilot scheme to national programme - Museums Galleries Scotland
Richard McBrearty, Curator at the Scottish Footall Museum, reflects on the nationwide growth of Football Memories reminiscence project.
www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk
August 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
⚽ In our latest case study, Curator Richard McBrearty shares how the Scottish Football Museum scaled up their 'Football Memories' reminiscence project by building powerful partnerships and connecting with experts: www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/case-study/f...
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“The nostalgia deployed here was fluid, enabling an attachment to the past, but also a reimagining of it into a different future.”
Kate Burningham and Susan Venn @cusp.ac.uk on Zygmunt Bauman, nostalgia and visions of the future in Stoke-on-Trent.
#OpenAccess @SageJournals buff.ly/Wvy2V4U
Kate Burningham and Susan Venn @cusp.ac.uk on Zygmunt Bauman, nostalgia and visions of the future in Stoke-on-Trent.
#OpenAccess @SageJournals buff.ly/Wvy2V4U
August 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“The nostalgia deployed here was fluid, enabling an attachment to the past, but also a reimagining of it into a different future.”
Kate Burningham and Susan Venn @cusp.ac.uk on Zygmunt Bauman, nostalgia and visions of the future in Stoke-on-Trent.
#OpenAccess @SageJournals buff.ly/Wvy2V4U
Kate Burningham and Susan Venn @cusp.ac.uk on Zygmunt Bauman, nostalgia and visions of the future in Stoke-on-Trent.
#OpenAccess @SageJournals buff.ly/Wvy2V4U
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🌈 New webinar recording: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums
Learn how museums can enable kids and their grown ups to engage with new topics in a safe space - and perhaps, to also see their experiences reflected back.
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Learn how museums can enable kids and their grown ups to engage with new topics in a safe space - and perhaps, to also see their experiences reflected back.
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RECORDING: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums by Kids in Museums on cademy.io
This is a recording of a session which took place on Zoom on Thursday 3 July 2025. Are you interested in developing programmes and exhibits with LGBTQ+ content for children and families? About this…
kids-in-museums.cademy.io
August 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🌈 New webinar recording: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums
Learn how museums can enable kids and their grown ups to engage with new topics in a safe space - and perhaps, to also see their experiences reflected back.
➡️
Learn how museums can enable kids and their grown ups to engage with new topics in a safe space - and perhaps, to also see their experiences reflected back.
➡️
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New pub: Memory Studies in India
This pioneering volume marks a significant contribution to memory studies in India, exploring how collective and individual memories shape and reshape identities, narratives, and historical knowledge.
@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
brill.com/display/titl...
This pioneering volume marks a significant contribution to memory studies in India, exploring how collective and individual memories shape and reshape identities, narratives, and historical knowledge.
@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
brill.com/display/titl...
Memory Studies in India
"Memory Studies in India" published on 28 Apr 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
New pub: Memory Studies in India
This pioneering volume marks a significant contribution to memory studies in India, exploring how collective and individual memories shape and reshape identities, narratives, and historical knowledge.
@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
brill.com/display/titl...
This pioneering volume marks a significant contribution to memory studies in India, exploring how collective and individual memories shape and reshape identities, narratives, and historical knowledge.
@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
brill.com/display/titl...
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⚡️Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival Programme & bookings are LIVE!
Discover Glasgow for free this September! Scotland’s largest free heritage and community festival returns from 18 - 21 September. Full programme: glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk
Check out our 2025 trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=52SX...
Discover Glasgow for free this September! Scotland’s largest free heritage and community festival returns from 18 - 21 September. Full programme: glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk
Check out our 2025 trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=52SX...
Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2025 Trailer
YouTube video by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust
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August 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
⚡️Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival Programme & bookings are LIVE!
Discover Glasgow for free this September! Scotland’s largest free heritage and community festival returns from 18 - 21 September. Full programme: glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk
Check out our 2025 trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=52SX...
Discover Glasgow for free this September! Scotland’s largest free heritage and community festival returns from 18 - 21 September. Full programme: glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk
Check out our 2025 trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=52SX...
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🎤Call for Speakers!
MuseumNext buff.ly/0sPlThj is inviting proposals for 20-minute presentations that explore the future of museum work for their upcoming Forecast Summit for December 2025!
The event will dive into the trends shaping the future of museums. #museum #future #museumnext
MuseumNext buff.ly/0sPlThj is inviting proposals for 20-minute presentations that explore the future of museum work for their upcoming Forecast Summit for December 2025!
The event will dive into the trends shaping the future of museums. #museum #future #museumnext
Call for Speakers
In November, we’re hosting the Museums & Social Media Summit, exploring how museums can harness the power of social media to engage audiences, build their brands and tell stories. We are now inviting…
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August 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🎤Call for Speakers!
MuseumNext buff.ly/0sPlThj is inviting proposals for 20-minute presentations that explore the future of museum work for their upcoming Forecast Summit for December 2025!
The event will dive into the trends shaping the future of museums. #museum #future #museumnext
MuseumNext buff.ly/0sPlThj is inviting proposals for 20-minute presentations that explore the future of museum work for their upcoming Forecast Summit for December 2025!
The event will dive into the trends shaping the future of museums. #museum #future #museumnext
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Join us at the University of Stirling to explore the memory, material traces, and places of everyday life — from the official to the overlooked — with archaeologist and heritage practitioner Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Join us at the University of Stirling to explore the memory, material traces, and places of everyday life — from the official to the overlooked — with archaeologist and heritage practitioner Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social
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For colleagues following us here who may have missed the emails - please sign the petition against terms in the Hybrid Working Policy (specifically requiring staff to work on campus ≥50% of their time) speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/hybrid-worki...
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August 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM
For colleagues following us here who may have missed the emails - please sign the petition against terms in the Hybrid Working Policy (specifically requiring staff to work on campus ≥50% of their time) speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/hybrid-worki...
Beyers explores strategies of commemoration in the Apartheid Museum & District Six Museum in SA. He highlights contrasts between the role of objects where curation attribute meaning to these no longer present & those used to incite a spirit of solidarity:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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August 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Beyers explores strategies of commemoration in the Apartheid Museum & District Six Museum in SA. He highlights contrasts between the role of objects where curation attribute meaning to these no longer present & those used to incite a spirit of solidarity:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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History is as much about remembering as forgetting. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore the intentional forgetting that reveal more about society's political choices than any moment of collective remembering. Find out more via our new ‘Research Shorts’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjj...
Forgetting - Professor Catriona Pennell, Professor in Modern History and Memory Studies
YouTube video by University of Exeter
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August 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
History is as much about remembering as forgetting. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore the intentional forgetting that reveal more about society's political choices than any moment of collective remembering. Find out more via our new ‘Research Shorts’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjj...
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📢Upcoming #SummerSchool in Digital #CulturalHeritage!
Are you a PhD student interested in how the digital age is reshaping our understanding of memory, heritage, and history? Join Tallinn University for a 3-day summer school!
🔗For more information: bit.ly/3IRTdaF
Are you a PhD student interested in how the digital age is reshaping our understanding of memory, heritage, and history? Join Tallinn University for a 3-day summer school!
🔗For more information: bit.ly/3IRTdaF
July 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
📢Upcoming #SummerSchool in Digital #CulturalHeritage!
Are you a PhD student interested in how the digital age is reshaping our understanding of memory, heritage, and history? Join Tallinn University for a 3-day summer school!
🔗For more information: bit.ly/3IRTdaF
Are you a PhD student interested in how the digital age is reshaping our understanding of memory, heritage, and history? Join Tallinn University for a 3-day summer school!
🔗For more information: bit.ly/3IRTdaF
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Congratulations to our PhD candidate @megomahony.bsky.social on her recent publication titled “Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum” in @memorystudies.bsky.social!
⬇️ Read the full research article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
⬇️ Read the full research article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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January 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Congratulations to our PhD candidate @megomahony.bsky.social on her recent publication titled “Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum” in @memorystudies.bsky.social!
⬇️ Read the full research article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
⬇️ Read the full research article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Very interesting paper by Fraccaroli & Simonetto (@psimonetto.bsky.social) which explores LGBTQ + archival practices in Latin America and highlights that archives share but also contest the meaning and materiality of memory of how LGBTQ+ people are remembered:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Very interesting paper by Fraccaroli & Simonetto (@psimonetto.bsky.social) which explores LGBTQ + archival practices in Latin America and highlights that archives share but also contest the meaning and materiality of memory of how LGBTQ+ people are remembered:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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*NEW SERIES ALERT* - EXCITED to announce Bloomsbury's new memory studies series: 'Critical Memory Studies', ed. Lucy Bond, Rick Crownshaw, Brett Ashley Kaplan & Jessica Rapson. Working in the area or know people that are? We'd love to hear from you! DM me for more info.
October 7, 2024 at 2:17 PM
*NEW SERIES ALERT* - EXCITED to announce Bloomsbury's new memory studies series: 'Critical Memory Studies', ed. Lucy Bond, Rick Crownshaw, Brett Ashley Kaplan & Jessica Rapson. Working in the area or know people that are? We'd love to hear from you! DM me for more info.
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Who do I know/ who should I know who is interested in open-air and living museums in any national context? I'm looking for practitioners, academics, and collaborators for a new project!
July 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Who do I know/ who should I know who is interested in open-air and living museums in any national context? I'm looking for practitioners, academics, and collaborators for a new project!