Trinity Talks: Gus Casely-Hayford and Laura Van Broekhoven - new audiences in museums practices.

Tue Nov 18 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm UTC+00:00

Trinity College, Broad Street, OX1 3BH Oxford, United Kingdom | Oxford

Trinity College, Oxford
Publisher/HostTrinity College, Oxford
Trinity Talks: Gus Casely-Hayford and Laura Van Broekhoven - new audiences in museums practices.
Advertisement
Old stuff for some, sacred belongings to others – how do we include new audiences in museum practice?
What does it mean to care for objects that are sacred to others? How do museums confront histories of empire and extraction? And how can they become spaces of inclusion, relevance and repair as audiences change in their demographics and how they approach museum spaces and collections? Two leading museum directors explore the tensions between traditional collecting practices and the urgent need to engage new, often marginalised, audiences.
Dr Gus Casely-Hayford OBE is the founding Director of V&A East, a museum and collection centre. He was previously the Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; he is a curator and cultural historian who writes, lectures and broadcasts widely on culture. Professor Laura van Broekhoven is Director of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of Museum Studies, Ethics and Material Culture at the University of Oxford and a leading expert on museum ethics and on finding new, more inclusive ways for ethnographic museums to work.
Tickets £10 / students £5
de Jager Auditorium
Advertisement

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Trinity College, Broad Street, OX1 3BH Oxford, United Kingdom, Trinity College, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BH, United Kingdom

Tickets
Icon
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

Ask AI if this event suits you:

More Events in Oxford

Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference
Tue, 18 Nov at 09:00 am Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference

Jesus College Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub

Make Play
Tue, 18 Nov at 11:00 am Make Play

30 Pembroke Street, OX1 1BP Oxford, United Kingdom

TORCH Talks: AI and Ability
Tue, 18 Nov at 12:30 pm TORCH Talks: AI and Ability

Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

EARLY MUSIC 11: Intesa Duo
Tue, 18 Nov at 04:30 pm EARLY MUSIC 11: Intesa Duo

The Chapel, 38 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LW

Style Edit: Found it, the perfect party look
Tue, 18 Nov at 04:30 pm Style Edit: Found it, the perfect party look

John Lewis Oxford

Sprints Oxford Tickets
Tue, 18 Nov at 07:00 pm Sprints Oxford Tickets

O2 Academy Oxford

Michaelmas Black Tie Ball
Tue, 18 Nov at 07:30 pm Michaelmas Black Tie Ball

Oxford Town Hall

This is Kingland
Tue, 18 Nov at 07:30 pm This is Kingland

The Library

Murder in the Cathedral Character Audition 2
Tue, 18 Nov at 08:00 pm Murder in the Cathedral Character Audition 2

Summertown United Reformed Church

Tuesday series 2: What can politics learn from theology?
Tue, 18 Nov at 08:00 pm Tuesday series 2: What can politics learn from theology?

The Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, Rose Place, OX1 1RD Oxford, United Kingdom

FREE Shivaratri Meditation - Oxford
Tue, 18 Nov at 09:15 pm FREE Shivaratri Meditation - Oxford

Marston Street, East Oxford, OX4 1JU

Oxford is Happening!

Never miss your favorite happenings again!

Explore Oxford Events