Recently I’ve been working with the Town Team on Bedford’s Portas Pilot. And we’ve started on a project called #citizenbedford. The project is the brainchild of Erica Roffe who has been working with The… Read More
I visited the Tate Tanks recently with some friends. I was interested to see they have a post-it wall. But the questions are quite challenging. Does live art have to be experienced? What… Read More
Its a simple premise. What would you save if your house was burning down? The truth is there isn’t much I really need. But if I had the chance, I’d save these things.… Read More
Whilst on holiday I made an impulse purchase of this book. Source: amazon.co.uk via Gemma on Pinterest And it has been something of an inspiration. I showed it to my sister and she… Read More
Recently I visited the Roman Baths with my family. My brother, his wife and two children were visiting from Taiwan so we thought we might as well splash out, and do the tourism… Read More
I work in a museum that is closed. We’ve moved out to temporary offices so that the builders can move in to get our redevelopment under way. All of the collections are now… Read More
It has been a turbulent few weeks, both at work and at home. At work, we have recently lost our director to local authority cuts. He was simply one individual in a layer… Read More
Hello all, I’m sorry I haven’t posted for a while. I’ve been snowed under with dissertation trauma. For some reason I thought I would be blogging all about my dissertation research, ideas and… Read More
As we all wait for tomorrow’s news of 40% cuts to DCMS I was reminded of this headline from a few weeks ago. And even though I am a committed museum employee, I… Read More
I’ve been visiting family in the Cotswolds lately – and whilst in that part of the country we went to visit the Pitt Rivers Museum. Now, I am ashamed to admit, I had never… Read More
