3Ms Object Biography Labels – Group 3
Whitworth Art Gallery `Cepuk’ (to meet something face to face with divine powers) T.15045 Produced: Late 19th century Made in Bali 248 x 80cm Originating in Indonesia and made for ritualistic...
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Elephas maximus A1225 Meet Maharajah… …a male Asian elephant standing at over two metres tall. His early years were spent in a travelling circus, before arriving in Edinburgh in 1872 at the age of...
View Article3Ms Exhibition Group 1 – The Lost Stage
The Lost Stage being installed We knew from the start that we were keen to exhibit something of Manchester’s hidden layers, peeling back time to show something lost, something that spoke of Manchester...
View Article3Ms Exhibition Group 2 – The Multi-Story City
Assembling the display collage Manchester: The Multi-Story City “It is impossible to think of cities without thinking of buildings…Buildings are powerful and complex symbols, important landmarks on...
View Article3Ms Exhibition Group 3 – Unveiling Voices
Unveiling Voices: 21 Perspectives of Manchester Unveiling Voices During Preliminary discussions we focussed on Manchester as an international city. The student population of Manchester University alone...
View Article3Ms Exhibition Group 4 – Your Manchester
Your Manchester Your Manchester We wanted to create a reflexive exhibition that would make people think about their own relationship with Manchester, and consequently go out and explore the city. Each...
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‘Curators in Residence’: Hidden archaeological sites and ‘virtual curating’ Since October I’ve been away on research leave working mainly on my “‘Curators in Residence’: Hidden archaeological sites and...
View ArticleCHIMERA Launch
On Thursday 18th March 2010 we are launching CHIMERA (Cultural Heritage, Identity and Memory Research Area). ‘We’ is Anthropology, Archaeology and Museology at the University of Manchester. CHIMERA...
View ArticleSocial Media as Contact Zone: Networked communities and art gallery...
(diagram by Julian Hartley) Julian Hartley is a PhD student at the Centre for Museology, University of Manchester doing a practice-based PhD on the relation between people’s use of...
View Article‘Museums and Restitution’ Conference – Programme Online
Museums and Restitution is a two-day international conference organised by the Centre for Museology and The Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester. The conference examines the issue of...
View ArticleWeek 4: the changing role of a museum website
Hi everyone, Well I can’t believe it is already the end of week 5, so I thought it was about time (sorry for the delay) I posted my thoughts on last weeks lecture, kindly given to us by Malcolm...
View ArticleThe River Song in a Winter Day
Nothing to do with museums or digital heritage; just wanted to share those videos by two friends back in my home city Trikala. Yannis is in the videos; Kostas is behind them. Great stuff guys!
View ArticleFieldtrip to Churchill Museum
Hello everyone, and sorry for the delay. As you can see, instead of wasting time on a nice walk in the park and the first sunbathe of the year I am using the Eastern break to play catch up with writing...
View ArticleAgents of Cultural Change
by Angelina Russo* (Visiting Blogger) Who or what are the agents of cultural change for the cultural institution sector? Over the past 20 years, the communication of cultural materials has undergone a...
View ArticleReturn to Blogging and Turn to Digital Humanities
It’s been a while since I’ve last blogged (a while means 3 odd years!). This coincided with me getting more consumed into twitter culture: following, tweeting, RTweeting, archiving, storifying and all...
View ArticleSocial Media and Universities
The best April Fool’s jokes tend to raise eyebrows, but not to an extend that they (the jokes, not the eyebrows!) are not believable. Yet, when Times Higher Education published their April Fool’s...
View Article10 Principles in our Academic Web Practice
It’s been one year since the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester was formed out of the merge of two Schools (Arts, Histories and Cultures; and Languages, Linguistics...
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