What’s really hidden in museum stores?
November 22, 2020
Never mind what’s not on display, what is the percentage of un(der)catalogued collections in our museums
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Who are museum curators according to pop culture?
November 15, 2020
Museum curators are misunderstood. People don’t know what a curator does, and they like to talk about curating in all sorts of ways that anger…
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June 4, 2020
The most important thing museums can do is to diversify their staff and compensate people properly for their labour
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February 6, 2020
This post is the second part of a presentation I have at the Museums Association’s Empowering Collections event. Part 1 broke down some documentation myths.…
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This post is an version of a presentation I gave at the Museums Association’s Empowering Collections event on 3rd February 2020. The second part will…
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September 13, 2019
This month I am starting a year long research and development project funded by the Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice grant scheme. I…
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April 3, 2019
In order to illustrate the importance of collections documentation to meaningful engagement with museums, I wondered what it would be like if cinemas were like…
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March 14, 2019
In the past when people within the museum sector have made a fuss about people outside the sector ‘mis-using’ the word curator, or more often,…
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November 28, 2018
‘What a difficult thing a gift is for a woman! She’ll punish herself for receiving it.’ Zadie Smith
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March 25, 2018
This week there have been a couple of job stories which have been blowing up on twitter, and they tell you quite a lot about…
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