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COLLECTING THE CONTEMPORARY: A ONE DAY SEMINAR

 

Museum in Docklands

28 January 2008, 11.30am - 4.00pm

 

Free, but booking required

 

 

The Urban Social History Contemporary Collecting SSN (subject specialist network) is organising a one day seminar to explore and debate issues and challenges around contemporary collecting today.  This will take place later this month, on 28 January 2008 at Museum in Docklands, London. 

 

Zelda Baveystock (International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, University of Newcastle) will reflect on contemporary collecting in British museums today and raise some of the key issues and challenges

 

Sue Washington (Hampshire County Council Museums & Archives Service) will talk about the challenges and learning experiences of the Dressed 2 Express Project, which involves young people in the Basingstoke area collecting and displaying contemporary youth fashion

 

Annette Day (Museum of London) will discuss working in collaboration with community organisations and collecting intangible as well as tangible heritage, using the Refugee Communities History Project as a case study

 

Rebecca Thomlinson (The British Postal Museum & Archive) will reflect on the issues and decisions involved in developing a contemporary collecting policy to record an important and rapidly changing industry, how the museum has gone about collecting the contemporary so far and plans for the future

 

Matthew Williams (Reading Museum Service) will explore Reading Museum’s long term integration of contemporary collecting strategies into its public and learning programmes

 

The day will end with an open discussion involving all of the speakers together with attendees. 

 

 

Museum of Docklands is based in a Georgian warehouse in London's Docklands.  Part of the Museum of London Group, it tells the story of London's river, port and people, and has recently opened a new permanent gallery 'London, Sugar and Slavery'.  Further details, including how to get to the Museum, are available at http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk

 

 

Attendance at the event is free, but booking is required.  To book a place, please email Annette Day at [log in to unmask], giving your name, job title and organisation.  The deadline for booking is FRIDAY 18 JANUARY 2008.   

 

Annette Day

On behalf of the Urban Social History Contemporary Collecting SSN

 

Annette Day
Senior Curator of Oral History & Contemporary Collecting
Museum of London
150 London Wall
London. EC2Y 5HN
Tel: 020 7814 5758
Fax: 0870 444 3853
Email: [log in to unmask]
www.museumoflondon.org.uk

 

 

Victoria Rogers

Exhibitions Officer  /  Swyddog Arddangosfeydd

 

Cardiff Museum Project  /  Project Amgueddfa Caerdydd

The Old Library  /  Yr Hen Lyfrgell

Trinity Street  /  Heol y Drindod

Cardiff  /  Caerdydd

CF10 1BH

 

Tel / Ffon :  029 2087 3197

Fax / Ffacs : 029 2023 0297

Email / Ebost: [log in to unmask]

www.cardiffmuseum.com  /  www.amgueddfacaerdydd.com

 

 

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