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Dear Liz & everyone else
We have just opened a temporary exhibition, 'The Game of Life', using this sort of approach - oral history to interpret objects borrowed and in the collections as well as to deal with issues for which there are no objects. The AVs include extracts on Alzheimers and domestic violence as well as toys and early memories, wedding ceremonies and teenage fashions. Visitors are invited to contribute memories through memory walls for their early years and teenage years. Press release and poster attached.
Early in 2007 we also did a temporary exhibition called 'The People's Choice' in which local people voted for what went on display and provided caption material for their choices that supplemented the curatorial voice.
Best wishes
John
John Stedman
Local History Officer, Portsmouth Museums & Records Service
City Museum & Records Office, Museum Road, Portsmouth PO1 2LJ
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Subject: [SHCG-LIST] Displays/exhibitions created through contemporary
collecting/oral history projects?
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Hi all
At Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, we are soon going to be developing a
gallery called 'Your Birmingham' which will create displays about
Birmingham people today and their views/ experiences of the city. We will
be developing content for this gallery through community collecting and
oral history projects. We are particularly interested in using first person
interpretations in this gallery rather than a curatorial voice.
We are really interested to find out about any museums who have developed
displays in a similar way in their permanent galleries or temporary
exhibitions as we are keen to arrange some study trips. A couple of
examples that have already been suggested to us are Museum of London and
Croydon. Can you add any more....?
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Best wishes
Liz
Audience Development Officer
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
0121 303 0321
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