With brilliant contributions from Alice Stevenson @LMcAtackney and many more (watch this space for donwload links!)

I was lucky enough to catch @ChristinaJRiggs Evans-Pritchard lectures in 2012 while I was working at the Pitt-Rivers Museum. Both profoundly transformed how I approached the past - recent & ancient. Her beautifully crafted prose is part of the power of this book 👇

If you're at SAA this week do pop by to hear UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD student Summer Rose Austin present her research on Tut on Tour: 30 years of demand creation through exhibition

Loving these conversations that make transparent & reflect upon museum ‘backstage’ practices. Thank you for sharing the ongoing work of our Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project ‘Mobilising collections for institutional change’. Podcast 3 of Only Collections in the Building series 👇

Just reposting links to Episode 1, Unpinning Colonialism: on.soundcloud.com/64nPZmRNESngqd… on hidden stories of colonial resistance and Episode 2: I don't accept Horniman's gift! on.soundcloud.com/mff2YRfsEXX84w… on the problems with Victorian "generosity"

Congratulations to our UCL Institute of Archaeology MA Museum Studies students on the opening of their fantastic exhibition Future Thinking and Fantasies 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Episode 4 of Only Collections in the Building with Heba Abd el Gawad | هبة عبد الجواد is out! In this episode we are joined by Navjot Mangat & Dr Mariam Aboelezz. We discuss the importance of language and translation to working through structural inequality in museum practice bit.ly/OCIB4

Adding the link, the most important part, which I forgot…. bit.ly/OCIB4

Congratulations to Cara Krmpotich, Alice Stevenson and their contributors! Their new #openaccess book Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice publishes today! Read and download it free`: ow.ly/oqRY50SGWAF #museumstudies

UCL History's British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Eva Miller, has recently published ‘Early Civilization and the American Modern: Images of Middle Eastern Origins in the United States, 1893–1939’ 🎉📘 👉Free copy available here: shorturl.at/YjwPf

Public art collections are not an asset, they are a living legacy owned in common for current and future generations.

Collections managers are integral to the work of museums and archives, and we're hearing some of the ways collections managers around the world are pushing the sector forward in a more fair and ethical way.

Discover the political, critical, and social dimensions of collections management. Download Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice for free! 📚🏛️ #openaccess ow.ly/vghT50TjPJq

I too have jumped ship… bsky.app/profile/alices…