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…