Pest Checking
One of the slightly less glamorous, but still vitally important, jobs of a curator is pest checking. Pests are one of the 9 agents of decay for museums collections (the others […]
One of the slightly less glamorous, but still vitally important, jobs of a curator is pest checking. Pests are one of the 9 agents of decay for museums collections (the others […]
Last week, I completed a placement at Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, a small local authority museum with an important fine art collection and a social history collection relating to the local […]
I am currently working on a display for the Herbert’s ‘What’s In Store’ gallery, which will look at one theme across the Herbert’s different collections. The theme I have chosen […]
Placements at other museums are an important part of the curatorial traineeships, enabling us to experience other collections and approaches. I have spent the last two weeks on a placement […]
Last week I attended the annual conference of the Dress and Textiles Specialists (DATS), a subject specialist network for museum professionals working with collections of fashion, dress and textiles. This year’s […]
Yesterday saw us putting the final touches to Keeping Up Appearances before the launch last night! The final pieces of interpretation – pull-up banners featuring period photographs of women, the […]
On the third day of the installation (yesterday), the exhibition really started to take shape, as we filled the rest of the cases with objects, positioned large social history objects […]
The first job on day 2 of the installation of Keeping Up Appearances was to start positioning objects in cases. Shasti, our new trainee, assisted me with this and we […]
The time has finally come! The past 4 months have been leading up to this week: the installation of Keeping Up Appearances! This is a particularly exciting week for me: […]
When experiencing exhibitions as a visitor, you never quite appreciate all the little jobs that have been done to ensure that objects are well-presented and well-protected. These little jobs (in […]