One of the nice things about the School of Museum Studies is the tremendous sense of community. We hope that when our students join us the feel they have become part of that community and that, when they leave us, they remain part of our community and networks. It is true that our students are […]
On 22 May at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) conference in Baltimore I attended an unforgettable session commemorating twenty years since artist Fred Wilson’s precedent-setting intervention Mining the Museum at the Maryland Historical Society. Wilson’s 1993 exhibition critiqued museums’ traditional silences around issues of race by juxtaposing celebrated objects representing narratives of wealth and […]
One of the most fascinating things about my job is looking at the background of our distance learning students when they complete their applications to study with us…Where do they come from? What do they do? Why do they want to study with us? Perhaps most striking when looking at all of these things is […]
Every year, our campus-based Museum Studies and Art Museum and Gallery Studies students take part in a Design Exercise as part of their Module 3 studies, the last taught component of their masters’ degrees. This culminates in the launch of their group exhibitions, this year ably opened by Jim Roberts, Honorary Fellow of the School […]
Every now and then something takes your breath away and makes you rethink everything you ever thought you knew about museums. Last week I was in Rio de Janeiro visiting the Museu de Favela in one of the shanty towns in the heart of one of the wealthiest places in Brazil. Here, stacked onto the […]
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