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88 articles tagged “Museum collections”

By Will Sims and William Law

Challenging museum narratives: the case of a Rhodesia Railways carriage

Image of a man in a hoodie from the back facing the Emerald City of Oz at the other end of the Yellow Brick Road. Curtains separate him from the road, as though he is about to step onstage.
By Ken Arnold, Andrea Bandelli, Rachel Ellis, Jane Henderson, Michelle Henning, Rebecca Mellor, Theano Moussouri, Michal Nanoru, Hannah Redler-Hawes and Tim Snelson

Ten out of ten: a review of the last decade

Image of a scanned photograph in sepia tones of a young girl playing with fairies. Caption printed on the brown carboard background says 'A. Alice and the Fairies'
By Christine Ferguson

Power at play in paranormal history

By Geoffrey Belknap, Samantha Blickhan, Lynn Wray, Alex Fitzpatrick, Lincoln Anderson, Lawrence Brooks, Jacob Fox, Paulien ten Hagen, Matt Hick, Adrian Hine, Maureen Rowe, Sandra Rowe, Rebecca Smith and Ruth Quinn

Communities & Crowds: a toolkit for hybrid volunteering with cultural heritage collections

Colour photograph of Stephen Hawkings blackboard covered in doodles and grafitti
By Juan-Andres Leon

Stephen Hawking’s superspace and supergravity blackboard: an iconic artefact in the making

By Tilly Blyth and Alison Boyle

Theory and every thing: acquiring the office of Professor Stephen Hawking as a resource for history and museology

Book cover for The Museum of Other People
By Harry Parker

Book review: The Museum of Other People, by Adam Kuper (London: Profile, 2023)

Colour photograph of childrens toys in a sandbox
By Tim Snelson, Toni Booth, William Macauley, Annie Jamieson, Natasha McEnroe, Selina Hurley and Katie Dabin

Objects of the Mind: using film to explore the entangled histories of media and mental health

Photograph of Cooke and Wheatstones earliest five-needle telegraph
By Graeme Gooday, Alexander King and Nela Spurna

1876 and All That: the ‘Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus’ as a case study in crowd-sourced international public science

An admission ticket to the private Edinburgh Observatory on Calton Hill from 1798
By Rebekah Higgitt

Revealing observatory networks through object stories: Introduction

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