The Transatlantic Slavery and Legacies in Museums Forum is delighted to announce that they will be hosting a Symposium at the Museum of Liverpool. The symposium will span two days (20 - 21 November) with the second day being a half-day, facilitated by cultural changemaker and founder of Museum X, Sandra Shakespeare, with a keynote speech from journalist and author Gary Younge. In previous workshops, the forum has analysed and critiqued the 2007 bicentenary commemorations and is now beginning to look forward to the bicentenaries of the 2030s.
Link to Forum webpage - Transatlantic Slavery and Legacies in Museums Forum | National Museums Liverpool
Date and time
20 November 2025, 9.30am to 4.30pm / 21 November 2025 9am to 1.15pm
Hybrid Symposium: Preparing for the Bicentenaries of the Abolition of Slavery in the 2030s
Pier Head, Mann Island, Liverpool L3 1DG, UK
20 November 2025
9:30 am
Join online or in-person at the Museum of Liverpool as we deepen our understanding of how museums, archives and galleries can work in more reparative ways with communities to present narratives about slavery and its legacy.
