Website Design Opportunity for People’s History Museum

The People’s History Museum (PHM) has an exciting opportunity for an agency to deliver a new website for the museum at a time of ambitious growth and change for the museum. Becoming an Arts Council England (ACE) National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) for the first time in 2018, the museum is keen to develop its online presence to better reflect its creative, dynamic and collaborative programming.

The new website will help us achieve the aims laid out in our current Business Plan:

1. We will have a strong programme-led approach across all services at the museum
2. We will engage more people in the work of the museum as audiences, customers and partners
3. We will turn up the volume on the museum’s profile and position locally, nationally and internationally
4. We will increase our self-generated income and create a more resilient financial model
5. We will build a bigger and better digital offer
6. We will strengthen the museum to be more confident, ambitious and effective

The requirements in the brief are informed by our new Digital Plan which runs from 2018 until 2022, however, they should be reviewed as part of a rigorous user-tested approach to the website design and development.

• Download the website brief

Please provide a proposal outlining how you would deliver the brief by email to marketing@phm.org.uk by midnight on Thursday 15 February 2018. Please include relevant examples, each with a reference, of your recent work in this area and an overview of how you would approach this piece of work. The museum will shortlist from the submissions received and interviews with shortlisted agencies will be held on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 February 2018.

For an informal conversation about this opportunity please contact Paula Hope, Communications & Marketing Manager or Daisy Nicholson, Marketing & Development Officer on 0161 838 9190.

Represent! Voices 100 Years On

 

 

Represent! Voices 100 Years On

PHM wants your objects and stories!

2018 is the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, in which all men and some women won the right to vote. To mark this monumental anniversary People’s History Museum (PHM) are developing a crowd sourced exhibition which will open on Saturday 2 June 2018. And we need you to submit your objects and stories!

Today most men and women in the UK, over the age of 18, have the right to vote. We are asking for submissions around the following themes:

•         Do you feel represented? If so, how? If not, why?
•         Does having a vote mean you have a voice in society?
•         Who cannot vote or doesn’t know how to use their vote?
•         How far have we really come in 100 years?
•         Have there been any defining moments in your life when you have campaigned for greater democracy or equality?
•         What still needs to be done?

We are looking for you to share your posters, placards, artworks, photographs or something more personal, along with a short explanation or personal perspective. Those submissions will then be selected by the Represent! steering group for the final exhibition. To share an example of the types of things we are looking for…Sarah Galligan a member of the Women’s Equality Party has submitted a letter which she wrote as a 10 year old school pupil entitled ‘Why can’t girls play football?’ She says this was a defining moment in her life when she realised that girls should not only be able to play football, but also should be able to have equal rights across society. Today she continues to fight for gender equality.

To make a submission to the Represent! Voices 100 Years On exhibition, please send a maximum of 200 word summary of your submission, alongside any relevant images to represent@phm.org.uk by 1 April 2018.

If you have any queries or would like to discuss this further, please contact Helen Antrobus on 0161 838 9190 or email helen.antrobus@phm.org.uk.