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- On COVID-19 and mass masking-up April 26, 2020
- Collecting, hoarding, touching and not touching: thinking about museums and the Covid 19 crisis April 3, 2020
- Belonging and not belonging in a museum: moving things around and talking of decolonising at the AfricaMuseum March 31, 2019
- Highly visible politicians December 9, 2018
- Museum objects and non-museum objects: bicycles & chairs February 16, 2018
- On the literally transparent FIFA voting booth November 2, 2017
- The Prince of Wales, the rhino leg waste-paper basket, and the Museums Association’s Disposal Toolkit December 18, 2016
- Moving a Museum May 2, 2016
- Out of storage and on display November 25, 2015
- Playing with Museum Representations of 18th-Century American Encounters October 25, 2014
- Felt Tips and Whiteboards July 12, 2014
- Mannequins, models and simulations: The Oxford Story May 3, 2014
- Locked up in the museum December 9, 2013
- visiting and interpreting the cemetery-museum June 13, 2013
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On COVID-19 and mass masking-up
There are competing societal and governmental demands for both concealment and exposure of the human face. In 2019 protesters in Hong Kong masked-up to protect individual identity, to frustrate state surveillance technologies, and to both symbolically and literally reject the … Continue reading
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Collecting, hoarding, touching and not touching: thinking about museums and the Covid 19 crisis
On the morning of Tuesday, March 23 our University Museum received an urgent request for PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) from the Glasgow Night Shelter for Destitute Asylum Seekers. They were coordinating, with Simon Community Scotland, hotel accommodation in Glasgow and … Continue reading
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Belonging and not belonging in a museum: moving things around and talking of decolonising at the AfricaMuseum
A thread of approximately 50 tweets following my visit to the reopened AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, near Brussels, in January 2019. [If anyone can tell me how to re-embed these tweets into a WordPress page without each tweet showing its immediate … Continue reading
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Highly visible politicians
In the run-up to the 2015 General Election Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was photographed in a factory or on a construction site wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) with such regularity and clear enjoyment that it was both ridiculed … Continue reading
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Tagged democracy, History of fashion, Politics, PPE, radical transparency, Sociology of work, transparency, Visibility, Workwear
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Museum objects and non-museum objects: bicycles & chairs
An exploration This was a project that came out of museum visits in Copenhagen and Munich in May 2006. I liked the idea of a image-led story, part children’s picture book, part Ways of Seeing (John Berger). Many years later … Continue reading
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On the literally transparent FIFA voting booth
At the beginning of 2016 world football’s governing body, FIFA, had an integrity problem. One proposed solution was literal transparency. The June 2015 presidential election had been won by Sepp Blatter only for him to resign days later in disgrace, … Continue reading
The Prince of Wales, the rhino leg waste-paper basket, and the Museums Association’s Disposal Toolkit
In February 2014, Charles, Prince of Wales launched a new campaign to tackle “the demand for and consumption of specific products from critically endangered wildlife”. Elephants and rhinos in particular were being killed for their tusks and their horns by … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, Empire, Endangered species, hunting, museums, rhinos, Royal family
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Moving a Museum
Following the things on a museum decant project The museum’s entire collection is moving to a brand-new storage facility. Rehousing takes place at a variety of scales: new facility, new racks, new shelves, new trays. In a warehouse on the … Continue reading
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Tagged behind-the-scenes, museology, museum studies, museums, visible storage
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Out of storage and on display
“We’ll help the British Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A move their collections out of storage and on display.” George Osborne, 2015 Autumn Statement and Spending Review Speech, November 25, 2015 In an announcement that surprised no-one in the … Continue reading
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Playing with Museum Representations of 18th-Century American Encounters
In 1763 the proprietors of Pennsylvania and Maryland commissioned a land survey to resolve the long-running boundary dispute between the two provinces. Dozens of “axe men” spent the best part of five years clearing lines through the woods, to enable … Continue reading
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