We are pleased to say that the first output from our project, a booklet designed as a resource for museum professionals, is now available here. We are immensely grateful to participants from all three of our workshops who have generously contributed to the resource. Please share widely with anyone you think might find it of Read More…
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Final workshop took place in 2024
Our last workshop took place in two parts in spring/summer 2024, one day online and one day in person at TU Berlin. See the full programmes, recordings for the online day and images of the in person day, here for part 1 and here for part 2.
Workshop 3 – in 2 parts
Our third and final workshop, on transnational forces and the making of museum professionals will take place in 2 parts, one in May 2024 which is online, and one in June 2024 which is in person and will be hosted by Technische Universität, Berlin, and will be kindly supported by the research project Museums and Read More…
News – call for participation for workshop 3 now open
We have added a call for participation for workshop 3 which will have an online and an in person component, across May and June 2024 – see here. Please spread the news!
News – recordings of workshop 2 now available
Recordings of the presentations at our second workshop are now available here. We hope you enjoy watching!
Recruiting and selecting curatorial staff at the British Museum in the 19th and 20th centuries: Civil servants and the ideal of the classical education
Archival material held at the British Museum (BM) reveals that staff recruitment was a fairly bureaucratic, rule-driven process over which considerable trouble was taken, certainly compared to many non-national museums where recruitment was ad hoc, informal, and concerned with spending as little money as possible above all else. Although museums have changed their recruitment practices Read More…
Workshop 1: abstracts and bios
Making Museum Professionals Workshop 1, 23 May 2023: Museum Work: Hierarchies and Barriers, Exclusion and Inclusion Abstracts and speaker details Keynotes: Dr Errol Francis, Towards inclusivity and relevance in UK arts and heritage Abstract: Culture& is a black-led arts and education charity based in London. Culture& provides consultancy and research and has co-curated a number Read More…
Diversification and Diversity: The Employment of Asian Museum Professionals in the UK
In this blog post, Hoyee Tse discusses employment patterns for Asian museum professionals in the UK, uncovering signs that they have very restricted possibilities for paid work, usually focussing on exhibitions ABOUT Asia. Hoyee recently curated the Butterfly Project exhibition by Undone Theatre, and was the 2022 Design Trust Curatorial Fellow at the Royal College Read More…
Li Yuan-Chia and the LYC Museum – an amateur artist-curator?
In this blog post, Mark Liebenrood discusses the LYC Museum and what it might be able to tell us about the categories of amateur and professional in museum work. Mark has most recently been Visiting Early Career Fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester, in 2022–23, and in October 2023 he Read More…
Call for participation, Workshop 2, 4-5 December 2023 (online)
The call for participation in our second workshop, Navigating Museum Careers: Pathways, Training and Communities, 1850-Now, which will be held online on 4-5 December 2023, is now live! – click here