The UKMHF has extended their booking deadline to Friday 15th September for the UKMHF in Liverpool 2023.
The conference will draw together speakers from around the UK to share information, expertise and experience about all aspects of the UK maritime heritage sector.
Please note, the conference takes place across two days (21 and 22 September).
UKMHF 2023 - Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool
Provisional Programme
| Pre-Conference |
Wednesday 20 September |
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18:00 - 20:00 |
Arrival drinks |
Merseyside Maritime Museum |
| DAY 1 |
Thursday 21 September |
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08:45 - 09:15 |
Registration with tea and coffee |
Merseyside Maritime Museum |
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09:15 - 11:00 |
Cultural Transformation |
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09:15 - 09:45 |
Keynote and welcome to Liverpool |
4th Floor Lecture Theatre, Merseyside Maritime Museum |
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Sense of Place Chair: TBC |
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Ken Hamilton, Historic England. Heritage Harbours and England’s Historic Harbour Estate |
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Mark Vesey, Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre. The Scarborough Sea Wall Heritage Project – Portholes in Time |
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Adrienne Wallman, Maryport Maritime Heritage Ltd. Regenerating Maryport - Maritime Heritage at the Forefront |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Break and poster sessions |
4th floor |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Personal Transformation Chair: Faye Hammill, Professor of English Literature & Canadian Studies, Glasgow University |
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Maddie Phillips, Cutty Sark, and Hannah Stockton, Royal Museums Greenwich All Hands on Deck: the value of connecting museums and working vessels |
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Lauren Henning, Grace McCulloch and Joe Rattray, the Tall Ship Glenlee. Sailing Ships, Seamonsters and Storms - The Power of Immersive Storytelling Experiences |
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Ciara Phipps and Claire Reed, Southend Museums Service Collections Carers: cultivating confidence, skills and empowerment through access to heritage. |
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12:45 - 13:45 |
Lunch |
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13:45 - 15:00 |
Physical Transformation - Ship conservation and interpretation Chair: Fiona Greer, Development Director, The Tall Ship Glenlee |
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Rushdie Rasheed and Cathriona Bourke, Daniel Adamson Preservation Society The Daniel Adamson Green Steam Project |
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Jamie Campbell, Excelsior Trust 'Use it or Lose it'. |
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Robert Rumble, Imperial War Museum HMS Belfast: Refitting the ship 2021 |
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15:00 - 17:30 |
Study Visits |
tbc |
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19:00 - 22:00 |
Conference Dinner |
Venue tbc |
UKMHF 2023 - Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool
| DAY 2 |
Friday 22 September |
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09:00 - 09:30 |
Registration with tea and coffee |
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09:30 - 11:15 |
Cultural Transformation - New ways of working Chair: Hannah Cunliffe, Director, National Historic Ships UK |
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Cat Holt, Dover Museum/ Trustee Nautical Archaeology Society Discovery is just the beginning: An Introduction to Maritime and Coastal Archaeology for Museum Professionals. |
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Andrew Choong Han Lin, National Maritime Museum Navigating Our Way Through Unpath’d Waters |
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Stephen Beresford, Windermere Jetty Museum Future Facing Organisation? |
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Sarah Mott, Lloyd’s Register Foundation She Sees: Rewriting Women into Maritime exhibition |
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11:15 - 11:45 |
Break |
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11:45 - 12:30 |
AGM |
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12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30 - 14:30 |
Physical & Cultural Transformation – Reinterpretation Chair: tbc |
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Tim Bryan, the Brunel Institute at Brunel's Great Britain Trust The Albion Dockyard Project: Creating a New World-Class Maritime Attraction at Brunel's SS Great Britain |
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Sarah Riddle, National Maritime Museum Cornwall Through a Different Lens – Using Maritime Stories to Inspire Change |
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Sum up and introduction to next year's host |
National Maritime Museum Cornwall |
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14:30 |
Finish |
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