Artist organisation Coventry Artspace has commissioned Andrew T Cross to build a new type of social space in Broadgate, Coventry. The bar will form the main meeting point for Artspace’s symposium, a day of discussion about art in the city and a tour of different spaces for art in Coventry. Built with volunteers from Artspace […]
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Bookbox Making Workshop:
Bookbox Making Workshop: Care and Handling of paper/books with a practical workshop in building archive boxes for books. May 28th at Charles Hastings Education Centre, Charles Hastings Way, Worcestershire Royal Hospital, WR5 1DD An excellent free session (lunch included) for those working with books or paper. Session will be run by Birmingham Museums Trust’s Jane Thompson-Webb and […]
Museum Photographic Workshop
Professional photographer Brian Wood will be offering a free one day workshop designed to get the best out of your camera within the museum environment..Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, Monday 1 July, 10am – 4pm Brian will show you how to get the best pictures for marketing & advertising, websites and collections documentation. Please bring your camera […]
So, what is @MuseoMix?
It’s that @mardixon again – another fabulous international idea brought to this country. For three days the participants co-create and test new ways of approaching exhibitions. A hands on, imagination flying, international mash-up of ideas…November 8, 9, 10 and open day on 11th at Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (Museum of Iron, Enginuity). “We bring together museum professionals, […]
Funded creative partnerships with digital partners available
CATH (Collaborative Arts Triple Helix) Project want to help you make a date with a digital company to research something new and creative … Intrigued?… go along on to the university of Bham on 15th May … book here http://cathlaunch.eventbrite.co.uk/ CATH is a new AHRC-funded research project led by do.collaboration (University of Birmingham) in partnership with […]
Alfred Russel Wallace- travelling exhibition available
The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, arrived at the Theory of Natural Selection at the same time as, but independently of, Charles Darwin. Wallace, who grew up in Hertford, lived and worked in a variety of places in the UK and abroad. Hertford Museum now have travelling exhibition available for other museums – largely free details here… World of […]
Mounting Garments for Display
This archived webinar ‘Mounting Garments for Display’ and accompanying handout downloads from the US based Learning Times: Connecting to Collections seems a comprehensive reference resource for non-specialists. In the UK, even if you are not a member, do keep the Social History Curators Group website in your bookmarks bar… their firstBASE collections research site is […]
Bid for Free Collections Care Support
Making Collections Count is part of the a West Midlands MDO programme, the Flying Collections Assistant is offering up to 3 days of free collections care support and advice to museums across the West Midlands. Museums can choose from a range of projects or suggest their own ideas. There is also a small amount of project support […]
Campaign for Good Curatorship
That Nick Poole is at it again. Let us not be cowed: Museums need curators! Specialist knowledge is not a bad thing. Experience is not a bad thing. These are not the only things that make museums great, but we can, surely, articulate that it is ok for some people to have more knowledge than […]
