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.
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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
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Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
Catalogue
- Books
The new museum community : audiences, challenges, benefits : a collection of essays / Nicola Abery [and others].
Date: 2010- Books
Museums, refugees and communities / Domenico Sergi.
Sergi, DomenicoDate: 2021- Books
Museums and migration : history, memory and politics / edited by Laurence Gourievidis.
Date: 2014- Books
A handbook for academic museums : beyond exhibitions and education / edited by Stefanie S. Jandl and Mark S. Gold.
Date: 2012- Books
Feminism and museums : intervention, disruption and change / edited by Jenna C. Ashton.
Date: 2018