Letting the cracks show
August 6, 2015
On a recent trip to Bath I was interested to see a small exhibit in the ceramics display in the Victoria Art Gallery: a case…
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Free is the magic number
July 28, 2015
When considering the impact of museum funding cuts, I thought I knew what the threats might be: closures, or part-closures, shorter opening hours, staff redundancies,…
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July 12, 2015
At the end of June DCMS published a report Creative Industries: Focus on Employment which, as you can guess from the title, looks at employment in the…
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July 1, 2015
I have written in previous posts about an emerging trend for museums to put on self-questioning displays which examine what museums and collections mean in…
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June 14, 2015
At the British Museum's conference on innovative uses of data in museums the speakers, from diverse organisations such as the BBC, the Guardian, the Audience…
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