Museum Tales 4: Pot Oiseau
Pot Oiseau Shall I sing my song now. Does it sound of soft liquid purlings. Could this be the beginning. Where was everything. Was it just a void, a nowhere, an absence. Did you see a shapeless form appear. Was … Continued
Museum Tales 4: The Rebellious Octogenarian
The Rebellious Octogenarian (A Reply to Jenny Joseph) Oh Jenny Joseph, you’ve a lot to answer for! I thought old age could be endured, by simply wearing purple, and unsuitable footwear, eating large quantities of sausages and not caring … Continued
Museum Tales 4: Haikus for a High Street
Haikus for a High Street trade flyers pile-up on the abandoned door mat: two-for-one pizzas haberdashery: once family business lost the thread sometime no competition with Tesco & Sainsbury’s, Amazon online… plastic bouquet fades on shopfront’s dust-thick … Continued
How to look at art with Jenny Lund, Curator of Fine Art
I felt very lucky to meet the RP&M Curator of Fine Art Jenny Lund for a private art master class. As I confessed in a previous blog, I’m not very confident about my knowledge around art and how to view … Continued
Festival of Nature 2014 Stanmer Park
Not content with waiting for visitors to the Booth Museum, the modern Curator needs to reach out to the local community to introduce everyone to their local Museum and its wonderful collections. And so it came to pass that on … Continued
Open Data from our collections
Like any museum, one of our core functions is to make our collections accessible. This applies to the digital data about our collections as much as it does to the physical objects themselves. At present, the main means of accessing … Continued
