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Obviously now changing the password in the days before it takes for this to be inactive!

Well this year on LJ may be quite interesting - though hopefully less eventful than last. I'm still not 100% sure of what I want to use it for. It hasn't worked to put up stuff about my museum work, my mates on here are reading it, but nobody else is, and I think I've only ever had one other comment that was either anonymous or from a user who ( Read more... )

I can't write enough about the Museum of Scotland. In fact I am writing an entire chapter about it, and the only other museum that gets that is the National Museum of the American Indian. Well of course it does... because like the NMAI, the Museum of Scotland is a First Peoples (or 'Native' in the US vernacular) museum. It knows it's culture, it's ( Read more... )

New rules are (possibly) coming through in Australia that will operate as Anti-seizure legislation for lending contracts with museums, galleries and keeping places. I'm against this legislation as it is disempowers communities who may not be aware of materials that these museums 'acquired' before they are actually shown in the context of an ( Read more... )

Well Christmas is upon us and I've been pondering the issue of how celebrations are managed into the Museum space. I saw something really interesting happen at the National Museum of Wales when I happened to be there during their Diwali celebration... that is a very vibrant community from the Indian Subcontinent really pretty much taking over the ( Read more... )

Sorry, I did a poor job of asking my key question in the last post. What I was really asking was whether you think your OWN culture is represented in museums. I think I confused it by giving examples of the relatively small idiot museum visitor who would make inane comments on OTHER peoples representations ( Read more... )

I've got a big question for you all... When you think of contemporary representations of specific Indigenous culture/s (including, but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures), what do you expect to see ( Read more... )

I got a brilliant book yesterday from my mate, Marilyn. The book is called Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Baked Beans: my search for Britain’s Maddest Museums. It’s by Hunter Davies which is as good a reason as any to read, right ( Read more... )

Ah the journal of all possible things. I'm on leave at the moment, so won't start the writing up of my research until early January, but then it looks full-tilt to go into writing the book. There are two research outcomes out of the project, the first is a book and the second is an edited volume. The book, acting as a kind of a monograph I suppose ( Read more... )

In the context of this research, I love the Museum of London - both at the Wall and at Docklands. The people who work there, their use of poetry in the ancient London area, even the odd excitement that the English have with being colonised by the Romans is beautifully contextualised in their museum spaces. Museum spaces that are about place, about ( Read more... )