Last chance this week to purchase MoDA publications. The shop will close in January 2024. onlinestore.mdx.ac.uk/product-catalo…

#design #wallpaper #textiles #homes #katagami #1900s #1930s #1950s #1960s

MoDA's online shop will close permanently in January 2024. Buy MoDA's publications now before they are no longer available. We have a range of books based on the collections here: onlinestore.mdx.ac.uk/product-catalo…

#design #homes #suburbia #textiles #wallpaper

The actual report can also be found directly via DOI here: Cataloguing the ‘Oriental’ in MoDA’s Silver Studio Collection doi.org/10.22023/mdx.2…

Thanks to everyone expressing sympathy/solidarity for staff. We don't yet know what will happen to the collections, other than to reassure you that our professional task now is to find new and appropriate home(s) for everything.
moda.mdx.ac.uk/closure-collec…

Obviously there are a LOT of things we could say abut this, but we'll let you digest the news first...

Collections Manager Sian Woodward finds Kirsty Kerr's report 'Cataloguing the 'Oriental' in MoDA's Collection' a valuable resource to inspire ethical cataloguing practices across the sector. #ItsGoodToShare #RethinkingCataloguing
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The power of naming matters. @kirstyjkerr 's second post on cataloguing the 'Oriental' within MoDA's collection reflects on questions of power and representation in collections-related museum information #DecolonizeMuseums #RethinkingCataloguing ow.ly/wiZj50PP4JJ

Meet Kirsty Kerr, a Masters student on the New Museum School Advanced Programme run by Culture& and School of Museum Studies, as she dives deep into the complexities of the term 'Oriental' and its implications within MoDA's collection. 🧐 #DecolonizeMuseums ow.ly/pIgY50POwt5

Ise katagami (伊勢型紙) is the craft of paper stencils for textile dyeing, one of Japan's Intangible Cultural Properties.

Find out more about the#SilverStudio katagami from expert @MamikoMarkham, ow.ly/Jg7k50OxIaT

#IntangibleCulturalHeritage #HeritageMW

There's a lot about artificial intelligence in the news, but have you ever wondered how museums might use AI?
moda.mdx.ac.uk/2020/05/13/tow… #aiMW #artificialintelligencemuseums #innovativemuseums #AIinnovation

It's #WorldOceansDay and we are featuring #katagami stencils depicting the Great Wave. Turbulent water is often used as a metaphor for difficulties. The 2nd includes floating gourds, travelling with seeds, representing triumph over adversity. #OceansMW

The topic of the day for #MuseumWeek2023 is #food ! We hold books and ephemera related to the kitchen, home appliances and cooking. This blog by Alice Naylor is a kind of ‘micro-history’ of domestic life in post war Britain #MWfood moda.mdx.ac.uk/a-place-we-cal…

Museums try to keep up with technology, deciding which tools will allow people more engaging access to collections. MoDA hasn't tried NFTs or VR yet, but we do use APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to share collections on our website and others: moda.mdx.ac.uk/2023/02/14/wid…

What are we doing to reduce our carbon footprint? What are other museums also doing to preserve the planet? Find out more here:
moda.mdx.ac.uk/behind-the-sce…

#EnvironmentMW #WorldEnvironmentDay #museums4environment #ecologicalawareness

For #WorldEnvironmentDay , find out what we are doing to reduce our carbon footprint and raise awareness of the contribution other museums are also making to preserving the planet:
moda.mdx.ac.uk/behind-the-sce…

#EnvironmentMW #WorldEnvironmentDay #museums4environment

Our morning session of In Conversation event: Interwar Suburbia on 7th June is now fully booked so we now arranged an afternoon session. It is free but booking is essential #LFA2023 #Suburbia eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversat…

A few tickets are still available for our walking tour of Grahame Park, organised in collab. with Colindale Community Trust, 2pm, 24th June:
People and buildings of Grahame Park londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/event/people-a… via London Festival of Architecture

Free but please book in advance
#LFA2023 #GrahamePark

Booking is now open for our In Conversation event: Interwar Suburbia , 7th June
londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/event/in-conve… via London Festival of Architecture #LFA2023

We'll explore some of the museum’s posters, pamphlets and booklets relating to the expansion of the North London #suburbs in the 1920s and 30s.

Book now for our In Conversation event looking at Interwar Suburbia, as part of London Festival of Architecture londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/event/in-conve…

#LFA2023 #suburbs #

Book now for a walking tour organised in collab. with Colindale Community Trust, 24th June
People and buildings of Grahame Park londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/event/people-a… via London Festival of Architecture

#LFA2023 #GrahamePark