5 November, 2020
We are delighted to announce that Aditi Anand, our Head of Creative Content, has won the Radical Changemaker Award at the Museums Association’s Museums Change Lives Awards 2020.
Aditi joined the Migration Museum in 2015 and has curated or co-created all of our major exhibitions since, including Departures, our new exhibition exploring 400 years of emigration from Britain; our immersive exhibition Room to Breathe, bringing to life the personal stories from generations of new arrivals to Britain; No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain; and Call Me By My Name: Stories from Calais and Beyond. She also curated our digital exhibition Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS, shining a light on the stories and experiences of people who have come to Britain to work in the NHS over the past 72 years.
The Museums Change Lives Awards celebrate the achievements of museums that are making a difference to the lives of their audiences and communities across the UK. This year’s awards took place at an online ceremony as part of the Museums Association’s annual conference. The Radical Changemaker Award recognises the achievements of an individual in promoting one or more of the themes of the Museums Change Lives campaign, which shows how museums of all sizes and collections are impacting people and communities, in their museum.
“We have been incredibly fortunate to have Aditi as our Head of Creative Content at the Migration Museum for the past five years. In that time she has played a leading role in creating a number of critically acclaimed, richly participatory and beautiful exhibitions, all of which have personal and community stories at their core,” says Sophie Henderson, Director of the Migration Museum.
“Aditi leads our creative team and artistic vision with real warmth, flair, innovation and an astonishing capacity for hard work. Aditi is an inspirational and brilliant radical changemaker and this award is richly deserved.”
Prior to joining the Migration Museum, Aditi produced and managed a multimedia education project in India that is currently being implemented in over a thousand schools and was communications lead for India’s largest media for social change initiative. She has also worked in New York with the Museum of the Moving Image and interactive design firm, Local Projects. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Yale University.
Aditi’s latest exhibition, Departures, opened at the Migration Museum in Lewisham in October 2020. While the exhibition is currently closed to the public in line with government restrictions in response to Coronavirus (Covid-19), we hope to reopen the exhibition again soon, in line with government and public health regulations and guidance.
Find out more about the Museums Change Live Awards and view the full list of awards and nominees here.
9 October, 2020
A Guardian feature on the Migration Museum’s Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS exhibition, including interviews with our head of creative content, Aditi Anand, and with a number of people who contributed their stories to the exhibition.
1 June, 2021
PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATIONS FOR THIS ROLE HAVE NOW CLOSED AND THE POST HAS BEEN FILLED
Application deadline: Sunday 4 July 2021
The Migration Museum is seeking a Development Manager to help us boost our fundraising capacity through maximising income from Trusts and other donors and delivering an effective Customer Relationship Management system and strategy.
Although the pandemic enforced the museum’s closure for most of the past year, we were nevertheless positive and productive in terms of creative development, partnership building and demonstrating the relevance of our work. We now have an unprecedented opportunity to demonstrate the potential of the Migration Museum both through our physical presence in a large retail unit in Lewisham Shopping Centre throughout 2021 and 2022 (when Lewisham will be London Borough of Culture) and by means of exciting digital and national creative public engagement projects with the potential to reach millions of people. We need to increase our annual income so that we can continue to grow and develop the partnerships that will enable us to deliver the permanent Migration Museum in the next 3-5 years.
The Development Manager will be an integral member of our small, highly collaborative team, working closely with the Head of Development and Head of Communications. This role will involve researching and identifying funding opportunities, writing funding applications, narrative and financial reports, stewarding donor relationships and assisting with conceiving and delivering cultivation events and campaigns. The role will also entail implementing strategic communications to ensure that the museum’s supporters and potential supporters are fully aware of the museum’s outputs and achievements, and of the many ways in which they can provide support through funding, collaboration or amplifying our message.
The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience of and enthusiasm for fundraising in a relevant setting. They will have exceptional written communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, be confident producing and interpreting financial information, self-directed and with attention to detail. They will be extremely well-organised and comfortable with carrying out administrative as well as strategic work.
The position will also require working closely with all other members of staff on communications, project design, donor reporting and public engagement.
Please click here to view the full job description
To apply for this position, please e-mail a copy of your CV and a covering letter of no more than 500 words along with how you heard about the role to Head of Development, Georgina Lewis: georgina@migrationmuseum.org
Please also complete and submit our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form. These monitoring forms will be stored and assessed separately and will not be linked to your application.
The deadline for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 4 July 2021
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to interview in the week commencing 12 July and asked to complete a short task.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact info@migrationmuseum.org.
9 October, 2020
Londonist featured the Migration Museum’s Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS exhibition in its preview of must-see exhibitions.
