Tag Archives: Collections
Find it Friday! – Week 42.
This week is the penultimate Find it Friday as I shall be leaving the Curatorial Services in less than two weeks. Due to this I am frantically trying to get all the current projects I have on the go completed. One of … Continue reading
Encountering Corpses.
Museums, in order to achieve accredited status, must adhere to correct standards and policies. Alongside this it is essential to address the ethics of dealing with certain collections items. Collection items such as human remains. The conversation is an interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Day's Out, Egyptology
Tagged Ancient Egypt, Collections, Egyptology, encountering corpses, ethics, Manchester Museum, mummification, mummy, Museum
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11 questions to a museum blogger for #MuseumWeek
I have been nominated by Claire Miles, HLF trainee curator in Natural History at the Manchester Museum (read her blog HERE) to answer 11 questions about being a museum blogger, a chain blog started during #MuseumWeek on Twitter. So, here … Continue reading
Find it Friday! – Week 38.
I have referred to this week’s Find it Friday object in an earlier post (HERE) but now I have completed work on it I have decided to have a closer look. This Globe is part of the support collection that … Continue reading
Posted in Find it Friday!
Tagged Collections, Conservation, Curatorial Services, filming, find it friday, Friday, globe, Manchester, restoration, staircase house, the mill
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Moving on up: Secrets of the successful museum career. #MOU2014
On February 6th, I had the amazing opportunity, thanks to Museum Development North West, to attend the Museum Association’s ‘Moving on up: Secrets of the successful museum career’ (MOU) event held at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI). Luckily for … Continue reading
Posted in Day's Out, Training
Tagged Collections, Curatorial Services, Geology, MA, Manchester, MODES, MOSI, Museum, Museums Association, museums development north west
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Find it Friday! – Week 35.
Again, I must apologise as I have not wrote a blog for a while as I have been very, very busy. With numerous museums visits and various projects currently on the go, I hope to do a couple of catchup blogs in … Continue reading
Find it Friday! – Week 34.
A few months ago I wrote an article for Stockport & District Heritage Magazine. Being in a curatorial role and currently part of Stockport’s collection team I took this opportunity to explore one of my favourite pieces in the collection with a history … Continue reading
Posted in Find it Friday!, Geology
Tagged ammonite, caroline birley, Collections, Curatorial Services, Earth Science, Fossil, Friday, Geology, MODES, Museum, Palaeontology
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Find it Friday! – Week 31.
Christmas is upon us! And because of this, could this weeks Find it Friday have been anything but festive themed? Of course not. We have over 1000 Christmas objects in our collection and most of these are Christmas cards. This … Continue reading
Posted in Find it Friday!
Tagged ailurophile, cat, cat christmas cards, cats, Christmas, christmas cards, Collections, Curatorial Services, find it friday, Friday, meow, Museum, stockpot
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Site visits to Staircase House, Bramall Hall and Hat Works.
Although the parts of the collection that are not currently on display are kept in stores off site of the actual museums and heritage sites, where the curatorial staff are based, the objects on display often need to be moved … Continue reading
Posted in Bramall Hall, Day's Out, Hat Works, Staircase House
Tagged Bramall Hall, Christmas, Collection (museum), Collections, Conservation, Curatorial Services, Hat Works, london, MODES, Museum, staircase house, Stockport, Thursday, Tudor
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Our Connected History – GMMG
As I mentioned in Find it Friday! – week 28 , the Greater Manchester Museums Group (GMMG) were here last week. The GMMG is a partnership of eight Museum Services in the North West; Stockport, Salford, Oldham, Bolton, Bury, Tameside, Rochdale and … Continue reading
Exploring the Collection... 