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Tacye Phillipson

Tacye Phillipson

Senior Curator of Science

Dr Tacye Phillipson is Senior Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland and is responsible for the Museum's science collections, with particular expertise in the physical sciences and twentieth and twenty-first century material. She is also interested in safely maintaining collections containing hazardous materials and is one of the Museum's Radiation Protection Supervisors

Author Articles

Colour photograph of traditionally dressed native Americans on a zebra crossing
By Shelley Saggar

Book review: Native Americans in British Museums by Jack Davy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Book review: Native Americans in British Museums by Jack Davy
Black and white photograph of spectators at a railway centenary procession in 1925
By Sophie Vohra

Commemorating the past, shaping the future: the jubilee and centenary celebrations of the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Analysing the jubilee (1875) and centenary (1925) celebrations of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, this paper examines the forms and functions of commemoration cultures centred on important moments in this industry’s history.
Colour photograph of the BepiColombo satellite Structural Thermal Model on display at the Science Museum
By Abigail MacKinnon

The BepiColombo ‘model’: looking beyond the ‘original’

Through the recent example of the BepiColombo Structural Thermal Model currently on display in the Science Museum, this paper argues that models should be interpreted as original objects and not just as representations of the final product.
Colour photograph of a Watkins Electric Music Copicat Tape Delay machine circa 1961
By James Mansell, Annie Jamieson and Alexander De Little

Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums

This article reports on the methodology and findings of the project ‘Sonic Futures: Collecting, Curating and Engaging with Sound at the National Science and Media Museum’. The article argues that engaging with listening audiences can diversify and enrich museum listening scenarios.
By James Mansell

‘A Chamber of Noise Horrors’: sound, technology and the museum

Colour photograph of a pair of aboriginal north american moccasins
By Tim Boon, Annie Jamieson, John Kannenberg, Aleks Kolkowski and James Mansell

‘Organising Sound’: how a research network might help structure an exhibition

By Sophie Goggins, Tacye Phillipson and Samuel J M M Alberti

Prosthetic limbs on display: from maker to user

By Tacye Phillipson

Collections development in hindsight: a numerical analysis of the Science and Technology collections of National Museums Scotland since 1855