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Transcestry in the running at Museums + Heritage Awards 2026

An image of a gallery with a pink wall displaying protest placards in the background. In the foreground and in focus, a table of human-shaped paper models in a variety of different styles and clothing hold celebratory and protest signs, including messages 'Queer is love' and 'Trans joy saves lives'
An image of a gallery with a pink wall displaying protest placards in the background. In the foreground and in focus, a table of human-shaped paper models in a variety of different styles and clothing hold celebratory and protest signs, including messages 'Queer is love' and 'Trans joy saves lives'
Image credit: TRANSCESTRY 10 years of the Museum of Transology exhibition at Lethaby Gallery, 2025. Courtesy of Museum of Transology. Photo by Henri T.
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25 March 2026

The landmark exhibition hosted at Central Saint Martins’ Lethaby Gallery in 2025 celebrated a decade of community collecting by the Museum of Transology.

It featured more than 1,000 personal artefacts donated by trans, non-binary and intersex people across the UK and Ireland.

The exhibition was led by E-J Scott, Senior Lecturer, BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins and founder of the Museum of Transology. Central Saint Martins students and staff were actively involved, developing accessibility features and exploring innovative curatorial practices and queer gallery design methodologies.


“TRANSCESTRY employed urgent exhibition-making for urgent times: a citizen-led, national response to social injustice. It redistributed curatorial power, embedded highly-innovative accessibility and sustainability practices, and centred community skill-building to curate our stories back into the public conversation on our terms.Over 1000 members of our community made this exhibition happen, and our team of ferociously dedicated Community Curators deserve medals.The honour of being in the top five temporary exhibitions 2026 proves trans culture is valued by the sector and meaningful to local communities right across the UK.”

— - E-J Scott, Senior Lecturer, BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins and founder of the Museum of Transology

Throughout its run, over 11,000 visitors attended TRANSCESTRY making it one of our most popular exhibitions. Find out more about TRANSCESTRY.

Winners will be announced on 13 May at the Museums+Heritage Awards

Launching the new Museum of Transology virtual collection

On Trans Day of Visibility (31 March), you can be among the first to see the Museum of Transology’s online collection of over 1,000 community objects.

Find out more about this free, online event and sign up for ticket here.