OTP 2022 Hub - People's History Museum

People’s History Museum (PHM) is excited to be an OUTing the Past hub for the seventh time on Sunday February 13. We’ll be welcoming you online and at the museum in a safe and COVID secure way in 2022 and we can’t wait to get programming.

PHM is the national museum of democracy, telling the story of its development in Britain: past, present and future. Our vision is of a fairer society where people’s voices and actions make a difference, we help people to speak up and take a stand on the issues that matter to them. Our programme of events and exhibitions are collaborative and centre lived experience such as our 2017 exhibition, Never Going Underground: The fight for LGBT rights. Throughout 2021 and 2022 PHM is working with a group of disabled community curators and disabled people’s organisations to produce Nothing About Us Without Us, a co-produced exhibition and programme of events.

By putting our inspiring stories of activism to work we challenge inequality and make space for dialogue and action. Our collection and archive are the foundation of these stories. The museum’s LGBTQ+  archive includes papers of key individuals and campaign groups such as Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM). Our collection is home to banners, t shirts, badges and other items documenting the lives and work of individuals and groups such as the personal badge collection of Ernest Hole, founder of Gay’s the Word, Britain’s first LGBTQ+ bookshop and objects representing the LGBTQ+ community’s fight against the far right.

 As the home of ideas worth fighting for, OUTing the Past is a highlight of our programme annually. We’re looking forward to bringing you our best OUTing the Past yet in collaboration with our partners, city and you. We can’t wait to see you there!

You can find out more about how to get to the museum here.