Tag Archives: MODES
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 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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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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The Final instalment of Vernon Park.
On the 29th of July I started a project that, if you have read earlier posts or if you follow me on twitter you will know, I have been talking about constantly since I began, and this will not be … Continue reading
Posted in Vernon Park
Tagged Collections, Conservation, Curatorial Services, Earth Science, fossils, Geology, Mammoth, Manchester, MODES, Museum, Natural History, Palaeontology, restoration, Stockport, Taxidermy, vernon park
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Find it Friday! – Week 22.
The past couple of weeks I have been quite busy changing (what seems like a billion) object location and other Modes related exciting things so I haven’t go round to writing a blog that isn’t a Find it Friday recently, … Continue reading
Posted in Find it Friday!, Freezer, Natural History
Tagged Arthropoda, Biology, Collections, Conservation, Curatorial Services, Entomology, find it friday, Freezer, Friday, Insect, MODES, Museum, pest control, Queensland, Stockport, Taxidermy, vernon park, Zoology
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Find it Friday! – Week 21.
This week is Earth Science Week so I thought in celebration of this for this weeks Find it Friday object I would do a geological item, essentially, a piece of the earth! However, as a geology graduate I seem to have been … Continue reading
Posted in Find it Friday!
Tagged allwin, amusement game, astronauts, british, Collections, Curatorial Services, earth, Earth Satellite, Earth Science, find it friday, Geology, geology collection, MODES, Museum, planets, rockets, Ruffler and Walker, satallite, space, stars, ufo, where will it land
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Conservation of two very different objects, in two very different ways.
Exhibitions are usually planned months, often years in advance and take a lot of work. Last week Katie S and I gave Bronwen a hand getting some paintings ready for a future exhibition that she is putting together. The paintings … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibition, Freezer, Stockport Story Museum, Taxidermy, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Bubble wrap, carpet beetles, Collections, Conservation, Curatorial Services, fawn, Freezer, infested, John Benjamin Smith, Member of Parliament, MODES, Museum, pest control, saints, Sheffield, sinners, Stockport, stockport story museum
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Find it Friday! – Week 12.
Its Friday again, and again I am going to look at another object I have come across in the Vernon Park Natural History collection. It is a slow process and still I am only on box 14, but the boxes … Continue reading
Posted in Find it Friday!, Vernon Park
Tagged Collections, Collections Trust, Curatorial Services, dolphin, Earth Science, find it friday, Friday, Geology, Ichthyosaur, Jurassic Coast, Late Cretaceous, Lyme Regis, Mammoth, Manchester Museum, Mary Anning, MODES, Museum, Palaeontology, Stockport, teeth, tooth, vernon park, woolly mammoth
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Meeting, meetings, meetings. Locations, locations, locations.
It has been about two weeks since I have been able to write a blog, that wasn’t a Find it Friday, due to being a bit busy here and there. I have had quite a few meetings within our museum … Continue reading
Posted in Bramall Hall, Natural History, Retrospective Documentation, Vernon Park
Tagged archaeology, Bramall Hall, Collections, Conservation, Curatorial Services, documentation, Downton Abbey, Geology, GIS, Greater Manchester Archaeological Advisory Service, greater manchester museums group, Joseph Nash, Manchester, MODES, Museum, Ornithology, Retrospective Documentation, Salford Musuem and Art Gallery, Stockport, Stockport Conservation and Heritage Forum, Taxidermy, Twitter, vernon park
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Exploring the Collection... 