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Finishing off my talk for the "Cursed Objects in Museum Shops" workshop at Birkbeck tomorrow. Will talk about two sets of postcard "restorations" of prehistoric reptiles and mammals by Alice B. Woodward, sold at the London Natural History Museum in the mid-1920s. Examples below:

To mark Kasia Tee's symposium, "Cursed Objects in Museum Shops" today, here's the second-most cursed museum gift object that I own👇 ...

Could you find out when the Museum of Cipher Equipment closed? What happened to the dolls at the Sandwich Dolls Museum? We need a short-term (paid) researcher cum detective for the Mapping Museums Lab project on museum closure. More info here: bit.ly/3zsfl6Z

Such a joy to speak at the Cursed Objects symposium yesterday alongside so many inspiring people! Thank you Kasia Tee and Centre for Museum Cultures at Birkbeck for putting on a wonderful day and giving me the opportunity to talk about mental health in museums this #DisabilityPrideMonth

🏛️📝The researchers at Mapping Museums Lab are investigating UK museum closures from 2000 to 2025. Do collections go to other museums, into storage or are they sold? 🤔 #museum #research #museumclosure #ukculture #conservation buff.ly/3Luv2gR

We are still collecting for cursed museum shop objects for an exhibition we are putting on next year! Send over your suggestions by the end of the month

An event for your diary: 'The Afterlives of Objects' Thursday 24th October 6pm at Birkbeck, Bloomsbury. Places are free but do book in advance. I'll be talking about our new research on museum closure and what happens to the collections. AIM bit.ly/3zcN98i

A reminder of this excellent event on Thursday 24th October at 6pm - make sure you book!

In 2009 Ray Guins and I published The Object Reader with Media, Cultural and Communication Studies Tomorrow we're meeting up again at Birkbeck, London 6pm to discuss our continuing interest in objects. Places are free but do please book mapping-museums.bbk.ac.uk/2024/09/05/aft…

This is soooo good #afterlivesofobjects Centre for Museum Cultures at Birkbeck tonight. #museums #objects #objectlessons

Night at the museum! On Friday evening, Prof Jen Baird's Roman archaeology students were treated to a visit to the study room of the Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum

It's great to see how Birkbeck students are gaining exclusive access to experts in the art world! Take a look for yourself 👀bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck-…

Great to see this interdisciplinary and cross-institutional article come out! Co-authored by some of our PhD students at Birkbeck

We are excited to share an event co-organized with V&A and BISA at Birkbeck on 'Restitution, Repair and the Memory Wars' on 4 February from 6:30pm. Tickets are free but you must book: vam.ac.uk/event/jwGPQkbV…

We are finally over on the blue place - check us out! bsky.app/profile/museum…

Coming soon- my essay film on Victorian art-workman David Parr directed by Lily Ford. More info forthcoming @drvickymills.bsky.social Birkbeck, University of London Birkbeck C19 Studies Derek Jarman Lab Centre for Museum Cultures at Birkbeck School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication BirkbeckHistoryofArt School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck

I'm going to be one of the guests on the Cursed Objects podcast live show in London, 28th May.

*Master's funding claxon* Did you know that we have scholarships for our MA programmes, including funding specifically for History of Art? More info here: bbk.ac.uk/student-servic…