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Cultural Practices

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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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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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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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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REMEMBERING 22/5/2017

Jenny Marsden reflects on the work that has taken place with the Manchester Together Archive over the last 18 months, focusing on the volunt

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CURATING THE S(H)ELF: COLLECTING AND DISPLAYING OBJECTS IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY

Marion Endt-Jones reflects on collections created by artists in times of personal uncertainty and crisis, as reconstitutions of self and ide

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

Kostas Arvanitis reflects on what collecting spontaneous memorials after traumatic events, such as terrorist attacks, can tell us about coll