Call for participants, Making Museum Professionals workshop 3: Transnational forces and the development of museum professions. 13 May 2024 (online, hosted by Fordham University) and 11 June 2024 (TU Berlin)
…seumprofessionals.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/workshop-3/

Book now for #MUSEUM #MICROHISTORIES symposium organized by MGHG University of Leeds 26 Jan 2024, 11am–4.30pm GMT Programme: mghg.info/microprogramme Tickets: mghg.info/tickets Attend in-person or online RHUL GeoHumanities Kew Gardens Library and Archives MEG

Sounds like an interesting event!

Funded doctoral studentship on the history of the Royal Geographical Museum: findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

Just a few days left - keep those abstracts coming in for the Museum Microhistories Symposium! Closing date 1 December.

The programme for our Workshop 2 in “Navigating Museum Careers: Pathways, Training and Communities, 1850-Now”. Online 4/5 December The Centre for Design History Booking also open now: …seumprofessionals.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/workshop-2-2/

Each day at dusk, as the last of the light fades from the London sky, Soane’s use of toplighting creates a quietly dramatic effect: highlighting details, recesses and hidden levels, giving his collection a depth and presence that, even in near-darkness, remains magical! 🌙✨

Reminder to get your museum microhistories abstracts in by 1 December - see below for more details!

Exciting news! MGHG Museum Microhistories Symposium, Friday 26 January 2024, University of Leeds and online. Call for papers now open (closes 1 December) mghg.info/microhistories… and you can get your tickets here: mghg.info/tickets

Call for micro-papers: #MUSEUM #MICROHISTORIES , MGHG #symposium University of Leeds Jan 26, 2024 11am-4.30pm GMT More: mghg.info/microhistories…
Deadline Dec 1, 2023 Kew Gardens Library and Archives RHUL GeoHumanities Museums Association University of Cambridge Museums University Museums National Museums Scotland London Museums of Health & Medicine

🔔Your reminder to register for our second MVC seminar! Join us October 4th at 5pm (BST) to hear from Harvey Shepherd and Elizabeth Lowry on dress, textiles, and identities.

Register via Eventbrite👇
eventbrite.co.uk/e/material-and…

I’d like to highlight a really interesting conference on the future of museums, happening at the Victoria and Albert Museum on 19 and 20 October 2023.

Tickets are free. Register here:

vam.ac.uk/event/3nN7p4jg…

Call for applications - HEI partners for AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Projects 2024/25

Four opportunities to co-supervise on PhD studentships with Library staff, collections and partnerships!

shar.es/agapOg

These rare visions of London were some of the last items John Soane ever collected! ✨

Weeks before he died, he spent £500 on the drawings collection of his late friend and architectural mentor, George Dance the Younger – including 1,342 glorious drawings by Dance’s office. 😍

Routes to Return
A new site aiming to open up global networks, share information, and enable international repatriation
👏👏developed by PhD student Amy Shakespeare
routestoreturn.com/?fbclid=IwAR33…

The first live Emus in Tring Park were a pair imported from Australia, given to Walter by Sir Cyril Flower (Lord Battersea) in 1890. They roamed the park alongside the rhea, cassowary and wallaby. This image shows some emu with a keeper, Mr Marcham around that time. #OTD

Paperwork's all done, so I'm looking forward to starting 2 years as postdoctoral researcher with Mapping Museums Lab. Wish Prof Fiona Candlin and I luck as we try to find out what's happened to the collections of hundreds of closed museums ...

✨ONE WEEK✨ countdown to the first seminar of 2023! Join us next Wednesday at 5pm to hear from Amber Burbidge and Dr Hannah Lee on the theme ‘Plaster and Porcelain: The Materiality of Race and Gender in Decorative Figurines’.

Register via Eventbrite 👇eventbrite.co.uk/e/material-and…

Over the centuries, the landscape of Kew Gardens has changed quite dramatically... What differences can you identify between these #maps and modern Kew?

Our cottage area hasn't changed much on the outside but inside has had several identities. It began as a home for the museum caretaker, Alfred Minall and to house Walter's books and insects. Today it is part of the public galleries, our shop and most importantly the toilets!