St Andrews’ Institute for museums, heritage and the people who sustain them.
Pressured by social and political claims for reparation and the redistribution of authority in decision-making processes, some museums have recognised their entanglements with Indigenous cultures and the erasure…
Wednesday 25th March 2026 This lecture will be held at 4.00pm in School III. Since its invention in the 1820s, photography has been used…
by Prof Fiona Candlin, Professor of Museology and Director of the Mapping Museums Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. Thursday, 26…
Wednesday 18 February @ 7.30pm Dundee Contemporary Arts Tickets: Standard £10 / Student £7 …
Waters Rising was a groundbreaking exhibition at Perth Museum examining the climate crisis, flooding, and climate activism. Following its successful run from November 2024 to March 2025, the project’s Curator, Niamh…
Recent work in heritage imaginaries has sought to highlight how ‘socially transmitted representational assemblages […] interact with people’s imaginings and are used as meaning-making and world-shaping devices…
Museums attract millions of people worldwide: but as well as communicating knowledge, their collections are important resources for original investigation
