In the series we share our experience working together on All Eyes on Her! - a community collaborative anti-colonial project Horniman Museum and Gardens that explores everyday feminism in Egypt, including acts of resistance, revolution & reclaiming. horniman.ac.uk/project/all-ey…

Episode 1 of the podcast series explores how acts of everyday resistance are hidden & made unseen through museum practice, focusing on stories of resistance that emerge through a small packet of veil pins from the 1980s. For more see this blog blogs.ucl.ac.uk/egypt-horniman…

👇The 2nd episode from Johanna Z-Sharp & Heba Abd el Gawad | هبة عبد الجواد, part of our Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project 'Mobilising Collections Histories for Institutional Change'. Read: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/egypt-horniman… Listen: tinyurl.com/36y4hy5f

With brilliant contributions from Alice Stevenson Prof Laura McAtackney and many more (watch this space for donwload links!)

I was lucky enough to catch @ChristinaJRiggs Evans-Pritchard lectures in 2012 while I was working at the Pitt-Rivers Museum. Both profoundly transformed how I approached the past - recent & ancient. Her beautifully crafted prose is part of the power of this book 👇

If you're at SAA this week do pop by to hear UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD student Summer Rose Austin present her research on Tut on Tour: 30 years of demand creation through exhibition

Loving these conversations that make transparent & reflect upon museum ‘backstage’ practices. Thank you for sharing the ongoing work of our Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project ‘Mobilising collections for institutional change’. Podcast 3 of Only Collections in the Building series 👇

Trish Biers ⚡️ Dr Lauren McIntyre 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 BABAO Chasing Aphrodite voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2…

Just reposting links to Episode 1, Unpinning Colonialism: on.soundcloud.com/64nPZmRNESngqd… on hidden stories of colonial resistance and Episode 2: I don't accept Horniman's gift! on.soundcloud.com/mff2YRfsEXX84w… on the problems with Victorian "generosity"

Congratulations to our UCL Institute of Archaeology MA Museum Studies students on the opening of their fantastic exhibition Future Thinking and Fantasies 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Episode 4 of Only Collections in the Building with Heba Abd el Gawad | هبة عبد الجواد is out! In this episode we are joined by Navjot Mangat & Dr Mariam Aboelezz. We discuss the importance of language and translation to working through structural inequality in museum practice bit.ly/OCIB4

Adding the link, the most important part, which I forgot…. bit.ly/OCIB4

Congratulations to Cara Krmpotich, Alice Stevenson and their contributors! Their new #openaccess book Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice publishes today! Read and download it free`: ow.ly/oqRY50SGWAF #museumstudies

UCL History's British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Eva Miller, has recently published ‘Early Civilization and the American Modern: Images of Middle Eastern Origins in the United States, 1893–1939’ 🎉📘 👉Free copy available here: shorturl.at/YjwPf

Public art collections are not an asset, they are a living legacy owned in common for current and future generations.

Saddened by the tone of this reporting. The city art collection is not / can never be a fixed monetary asset - it’s a changing landscape of social care + culture owned by us all. Further - acquisitions sometimes take years to complete + can be legacies.