#AskACurator Questions

[anteros_lmc]

Wednesday's #AskACurator event on twitter was really rather fun. I didn't even attempt to follow the tag, there was so much traffic, I just tracked the museums I usually follow. I had to be very restrained so as not to monopolise the National Maritime Museums curators :} I did ask them a couple of questions, one about the proportion of the NMMs

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[mylodon]

Navy in fiction event would be fandabidosie!

[anteros_lmc]

Wouldn't it be fab?!

[aralias]

that exhibition would indeed be brilliant - and i think it would have been ok to ask about the reprinting, although they might not have known ;) but maybe... would find out.

i like the ensign picture too, which i hadn't seen. tis a good choice of favourite object.

[anteros_lmc]

It would be a great exhibition wouldn't it? And yes the ensign is fabulous. It was captured from the San Ildefonso at Trafalgar and it measures 9 x 14 metres!

[elin_gregory]

Oh I wish I'd seen that!! A Navy in Fiction would be brilliant.

On a more serious note, I'd have asked how we're supposed to keep a museum going afte losing 52% of our funding and 30% of our staff.

[anteros_lmc]

#AskACurator was a fab event! I hope they do it again next year.

I'd have asked how we're supposed to keep a museum going afte losing 52% of our funding and 30% of our staff.
Museums, libraries, colleges, universities, it's the same all over. Culture, heritage and education is just being decimated. I know that there were quite a few questions about funding and access that sparked some debate.

[elin_gregory]

... quite a few questions ...

I can understand WHY it's the arts that are getting clobbered. Our local authority is losing 35% budget overall and there are only so many cuts one can make in departments where there is a legal obligation to maintain a service - education, social services, environmental health. The brunt has to be born by the departments that are not legally obliged to be there at all, like libraries and museums. But it worries me that museum are selling parts of their collections to cover the costs. It would be tragic to see the Nelson collection in Monmouth head off to Japan or America.

Navel ensign

[amaraal]

I encosiaed a bit about that ensign. Here are two sites with more information about size, etc.

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/es1785~w.html

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/es1701.html

Maybe you know them already and I would DIE to see a ship showing such an ensign in real life :)

Btw: I would have INSISTED that they reprint 'Dressed to Kill' :) Just saying :)

Re: Navel ensign

[anteros_lmc]

Thanks, I hadn't seen those links before. The NMM catalogue entry is here if you haven't already seen it. It's a massive thing, 9x14 metres!

Re: Navel ensign

[amaraal]

9x14 metres... That's really big. As I said - I would love to see such an ensign flowing behind a tall sailing ship.

Will check out the link! :)

[esteven]

Oh, I'd do my utmost to come over for That Exhibition. :) I wonder why. ;)

It is unbelievable that the NMM has not reprinted DtK. They could make good money form it. Maybe they never take a look at amazon?

[anteros_lmc]

Even I would make an extra effort to get to Greenwich to see that exhibition! I've still never managed to get to the NMM yet.

It is unbelievable that the NMM has not reprinted DtK. They could make good money form it.
I know! I presume that they own the copyright of the images, so surely licensing costs can't be a problem. I chat to one of the NMM curators on twitter very occasionally, perhaps I should ask him.

[esteven]

It would surely be great! Fangirls at the exhibition. They might not know what hit them. *G*

Pray do. Maybe they are not aware that there are people out there who would buy it?