1 day to go before my reissued invoice to a client, including interest and late payment fee, also becomes late. Nail-biting stuff.

I'm excited to share that the Victoria and Albert Museum and University College London are offering a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship on the provenance of the V&A's Asia Collection. For more information: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

The creative industrial complex.

Cutting-edge technology, ai-derived advancement and robotics, yes, but please tell me this £155m programme will fund digitisation posts? People to do the work?

📣 #CallForPapers for the upcoming international conference organised by the #ICOM Working Group on Collections in Storage in Paris from 29 to 31 October 2024 on the subject of #museum storage worldwide.

More information ➡️ ecs.page.link/yTw8h

M&S website 25 years ago looks uncannily like National Trust’s current branding to me.

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Happy Sunday, motherfigures.

Boysies! tried all the dating apps? This is your sign to go to the British Museum 's Life in the Roman Army! 58.1% of museum managers, 47% of archaeologists, and something like 75% of museum studies students are women - so head over and get #womansplained to today!

Human remains in museums: ‘However, the legislation does not cover…people from French territories around the world, including indigenous people exhibited in Paris’s “human zoos“. Parliament has given the culture minister one year to report on the restitutions of these remains.’

Coming back to X (briefly) just to say how awful this news is for #museum sector and all of the highly-skilled, specialist staff affected by these cuts. Awful awful awful.

In Leicester for media training session for PhD researchers, which is good because until last year I never considered there would be any media interest in #MuseumDocumentation

Thinking about knitting my own version of that Joanie ‘Visit more museums’ jumper but it will say ‘repatriate more objects’.

This is cringe, but also, the article says it is a paid role, the advert says otherwise.

oh my god it's officially public news, no longer top secret, you can pre-order our BOOK (!!!!) Poor Artists !!!! because the release date is gna be OCTOBER 3RD THIS YEAR! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

penguin.co.uk/books/455873/p…

A NW Consortium DTP Collaborative Doctoral Award focused on thinking through digital sovereignty w. World Museum 🌎 Global Cultures collection dataset supervised by me Luca Scholz Christian Baars and in collab w. Meghan O'B Backhouse

Start: 01/10/24

#phd #ahrc #phd funding

findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

I used to have this list written on a post-it when I was writing catalogue descriptions

Introducing...Data Hunters and Story Gatherers: towards community curatorship, a unique project funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. We are working with a new team of young volunteers to improve collections auditing, research significant, untold stories and develop community co-curation.

Since Collections Trust dropped me as a freelancer in Jan 2024 for providing inclusive language guidance on Palestine, it was recommended that I put in an official complaint with their funders Arts Council England... culturalheritageterminology.co.uk/2024/02/14/the… #artscouncilengland #critcat #freepalestine

Y'all are aware that art's council is literally the State .... right ?