Join us to explore how heritage and the arts can support people living with dementia. Sessions will showcase projects from museums and charitable partners across the UK, highlighting how cultural institutions are fostering connection, creativity and wellbeing through co-creation, digital innovation and inclusive practice. Together, our speakers will demonstrate the growing role of heritage in shaping dementia-friendly environments and expanding access to culture.

From the museum sector, Historic Royal Palaces will revisit their 2017 Rethinking Heritage dementia-friendly toolkit; Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales will share insights from their Museums Inspiring Memories partnership with the Alzheimer’s Society; and National Museums Liverpool will highlight the international reach of their House of Memories programme, and its pioneering digital resources.

Alongside these, community and charity perspectives will bring further context: Resonate Arts, working with the V&A and local memory services, will present their museum-based Cognitive Stimulation Therapy initiative; freelance dementia advocate Seiwa Cunningham will emphasise the importance of co-creating programmes with people living with dementia; and Caribbean Social Forum will introduce the Caribbean Dementia Memory Project, developed with the National Maritime Museum.

Full conference programme to follow.

This conference is kindly sponsored by the Belvedere Trust.

Take part at the museum: The conference will take place in the Theatre, Lower Ground Floor. Morning and afternoon refreshments are included; participants should make their own arrangements for lunch.

Watch online: This conference will also be broadcast live from the museum. Online ticketholders will be emailed a link to join 24 hours in advance.