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…
Category: Workshop 1 resources
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…