Stories
- Article
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
- Article
How to play in a museum
Some museums create games for visitors to play. In others, if you’re creative and inquisitive, you can make up your own. Find out how a game can give you a different perspective on art and objects.
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
- Interview
Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
Catalogue
- Books
Museums & galleries in Great Britain and Ireland.
Date: [1993], ©1993- Books
Standards in the museum care of biological collections 1992 / Museums and Galleries Commission.
Date: 1992- Books
- Online
Standards for touring exhibitions / Museums & Galleries Commission.
Great Britain. Museums and Galleries Commission.Date: 1995- Books
- Online
Standards in the museum care of photographic collections 1996 / Museums & Galleries Commission ; [editor, Crispin Paine].
Great Britain. Museums and Galleries Commission.Date: [1996?]- Books
Working with independent conservators : guidelines for good practice / Peter Winsor (Editor).
Date: 2000