Community Action at the museum

Yesterday the museum transformed into a podiatry clinic for #Streetsfest

Maybe the first time a museum has been a foot clinic? We're so pleased everyone could get their feet sorted. 🥰

Thanks so much to the lovely pods who worked so hard all day. It was busy!

We have always wanted the museum to be a *useful* museum. Our commitment to community action draws on long traditions in the grassroots that immediate and direct action is needed alongside campaigning and more strategic change making work.

"We take action" is one of our four pillars set out by the community and board in our strategic planning.

Our rapid response work has included extreme weather provision, voting registration hubs, street level legal clinics, housing deposit schemes for people in the asylum system, vaccination hubs, food supply centres, sexual health provision and now a foot clinic. ☺️

All of this re-shapes what a museum can do but it is simply grounded in what the community needs at a time of multiple system strain and sometimes collapse, as we saw with the food supply chain in covid early period. 

MoH will always move quickly to respond and that is something we are very proud of. ☺️