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COMPLEX FRAGMENTS OF A STATE-SPONSORED MEMORIAL DURING COLOMBIA’S MASS PROTESTS

Symbolic reparations are part of the transitional justice framework, a process that societies experiencing conflict or massive human rights

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MATERIAL LEARNING, OBJECTS, AND ONLINE EMBODIMENTS

Museum and gallery audience engagement and collections-based activity often centres on sensory response to handling real material. Likewise,

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CURATING COVID-19

This article discusses the student exhibitions curated as part of the ‘Managing Collections and Exhibitions’ module on the MA Art Gallery an

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CO-CREATION IN COVID-TIME: EMBRACING CHANGE AND UNCERTAINTY

While community co-creation is becoming a buzzword in the museum sector, many museums are still hesitant to share power, give away control a

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THE HYPERMASCULINE MUSEUM

As cultural organisations begin to intensify equality, diversity and inclusion work, Stephen Welsh reflects on his own experiences as a memb

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THE LAWS OF ILLUMINATION

Librarians who began practising in the last twenty years have had the phrases, ‘the death of the book,’ and ‘the end of libraries’ ringing i

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THE BENEVOLENT MUSEUM

At a time of intense reflection for our cultural organisations, Stephen Welsh challenges museums and galleries to consider what ‘benevolence

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PROVIDING EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR ARCHIVE VOLUNTEERS: METHODS USED ON THE MANCHESTER TOGETHER ARCHIVE

This article presents some of the methods used to provide emotional support to volunteers working with the Manchester Together Archive (MTA)

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WHAT COLLECTING SPONTANEOUS MEMORIALS CAN TELL US ABOUT COLLECTING COVID-19 – PART II

In this 2-part article, Kostas Arvanitis reflects on what collecting spontaneous memorials after traumatic events, such as terrorist attacks

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DIGITAL RESPONSES FROM LOCKED-DOWN MUSEUMS

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, museums increased their digital activities. This Insight summarises trajectories of this sudden digital trans

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RETHINKING THE ROLE OF MUSEUMS IN A TIME OF CRISIS

As museums around the world have increasingly committed to making themselves digitally accessible to the public during lockdown, we have bee

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ICONOCLASM, RE-INTERPRETATION, COUNTER-MEMORIAL, OR WHAT?

In the era of Black Lives Matter, what options are available for dealing with monuments, memorials and statuary with colonialist links?