What’s your specialism?
So Neil MacGregor is concerned about the ‘erosion of curatorial strength’ in regional museums. As funding cuts bite and staff numbers in smaller museums decrease,…
Read More about What’s your specialism?So Neil MacGregor is concerned about the ‘erosion of curatorial strength’ in regional museums. As funding cuts bite and staff numbers in smaller museums decrease,…
Read More about What’s your specialism?I recently shared an article on Twitter, ‘The Boleyns and the Bechdel Test’ about two costumed interpreters’ efforts to create heritage interpretation at Historic Royal…
Read More about Applying the Bechdel Test in museumsWhen I started this blog almost a year ago, it was because I wanted to push myself. I was working in a national museum in…
Read More about Let’s push things forwardWhen I started Acid Free I wrote a round up of emerging trends I was noticing in museum practice and displays, and I intended to…
Read More about Museum Trends: when worlds collideOn a recent trip to Bath I was interested to see a small exhibit in the ceramics display in the Victoria Art Gallery: a case…
Read More about Letting the cracks showWhen 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,…
Read More about Free is the magic numberAt 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…
Read More about Museums and the Creative IndustriesI 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…
Read More about All of This Belongs to YouAt 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…
Read More about What does data have to do with museums?It’s Volunteers’ Week, and lots of UK museums are rightly celebrating volunteers and the contribution that they make. It’s also a week in which I discovered…
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