Museum Explorations
@museumexplorations.bsky.social
A network of people at Warwick University and the local area interested in museums and museum studies. Curated by Dr Robert O'Toole of the Digital Arts and Humanities Lab, Faculty of Arts.
Thanks to @eicathomefinn.bsky.social for getting me thinking about that!
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Thanks to @eicathomefinn.bsky.social for getting me thinking about that!
Reading groups is an interesting case. How might we support them better, help people to make the most of them, make them more inclusive? And (from the Museum Studies perspective) how might we make these activities more open so that people outside of the institution can take part? - e.g. curators.
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Reading groups is an interesting case. How might we support them better, help people to make the most of them, make them more inclusive? And (from the Museum Studies perspective) how might we make these activities more open so that people outside of the institution can take part? - e.g. curators.
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Focusing just on the peer-reviewed publication end of the spectrum leaves out crucial steps that (especially in 'longer-form' disciplines) lead to excellent work.
Reading groups, work-in-progress seminars, conferences, series editors. All are crucial, & all are being devalued/defunded. 2/3
Reading groups, work-in-progress seminars, conferences, series editors. All are crucial, & all are being devalued/defunded. 2/3
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Focusing just on the peer-reviewed publication end of the spectrum leaves out crucial steps that (especially in 'longer-form' disciplines) lead to excellent work.
Reading groups, work-in-progress seminars, conferences, series editors. All are crucial, & all are being devalued/defunded. 2/3
Reading groups, work-in-progress seminars, conferences, series editors. All are crucial, & all are being devalued/defunded. 2/3
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There's an assumption that if we just published less, we'd publish better. That's ridiculous. 'Better' entails a whole host of factors, of which time--essential through it is--is only 1. If we don't think of the whole system of intellectual formation--and how it varies across fields, we're sunk. 3/3
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There's an assumption that if we just published less, we'd publish better. That's ridiculous. 'Better' entails a whole host of factors, of which time--essential through it is--is only 1. If we don't think of the whole system of intellectual formation--and how it varies across fields, we're sunk. 3/3
The skilled working class as curators in the late 19th Century.
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The skilled working class as curators in the late 19th Century.
Next, from Leamington Spa...
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Next, from Leamington Spa...
And relocates Swedish vernacular architecture into the museum.
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
And relocates Swedish vernacular architecture into the museum.
Debuted at Paris Universal Exposition.
Puts arrefacts into living context.
Puts arrefacts into living context.
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Debuted at Paris Universal Exposition.
Puts arrefacts into living context.
Puts arrefacts into living context.
Folklife tableaus, lifelike three sided dioramas. Like the ones we saw at the Portsmouth Museum.
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Folklife tableaus, lifelike three sided dioramas. Like the ones we saw at the Portsmouth Museum.
Carys Tyson-Taylor, open air ethnographic museum.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Carys Tyson-Taylor, open air ethnographic museum.
Next Katharine Hault Giotto in Cheltenham and Manchester
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Next Katharine Hault Giotto in Cheltenham and Manchester
John Ruskin was William Buckland's student!
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
John Ruskin was William Buckland's student!
And the Ashmolean was actually in the building that is now the History of Science Museum. Natural History then moved to the Clarendon, the big building on Broad Street next to the Bodleian.
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
And the Ashmolean was actually in the building that is now the History of Science Museum. Natural History then moved to the Clarendon, the big building on Broad Street next to the Bodleian.
I didn't know that the Natural History Museum started in the Ashmolean.
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I didn't know that the Natural History Museum started in the Ashmolean.
Next it's Susan Newell talking about my favourite museum, Oxford Natural History @morethanadodo.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Next it's Susan Newell talking about my favourite museum, Oxford Natural History @morethanadodo.bsky.social
Definitel an "in Yorkshire we do things the Yorkshire way" idea here.
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Definitel an "in Yorkshire we do things the Yorkshire way" idea here.
Temporary exh9bition in a former large textile hall. Symboloic rappropriation from industry and commerce to culture. Important for civic pride and identity. Opened by the Duke of Edinburgh.
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Temporary exh9bition in a former large textile hall. Symboloic rappropriation from industry and commerce to culture. Important for civic pride and identity. Opened by the Duke of Edinburgh.
Next session, sopaces of display, beginning with RJ Ware on The Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, 1875. Arguing that such exhibitions have regional origins and distinct forms, but still influenced by the prevailing ideology, colonialism.
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Next session, sopaces of display, beginning with RJ Ware on The Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, 1875. Arguing that such exhibitions have regional origins and distinct forms, but still influenced by the prevailing ideology, colonialism.
An absolutely stunning talk by Amalia Wickstead.
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
An absolutely stunning talk by Amalia Wickstead.