Contemporary Collecting

Earliest ever YouTube video enters V&A collection

A reconstructed watch page featuring the 2005 clip can be seen in the museum's design gallery

Q&A | ‘Having the opportunity to protect your voice and save your story is precious’

E-J Scott, founder of the Museum of Transology, on community, culture and collecting cardboard signs

Q&A | ‘Despite an increase in spontaneous memorials, little attention is paid to their impact’

Kostas Arvanitis on a new study that aims to support museums looking to collect material from spontaneous memorials

Tate to improve Indigenous representation in its collection

Four-year funding for collecting Sámi and Inuit art

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Collections need to reflect lives of neurodiverse people

We need new approaches to contemporary collecting, says Karl Mercer

Q&A | ‘One of our aims is to educate the public about the HIV/Aids epidemic’

Ruskin Collection curator Ashley Gallant on preparing to display the Terrence Higgins memorial quilt

History of Science Museum to tell Oxford University’s Covid story

Collecting project will document university's crucial response to pandemic

London Zoo donates Giraffe House NHS sign to Museum of London

Acquisition is part of the museum’s Collecting Covid project

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From the climate crisis and Covid to Reclaim the Night: contemporary collecting in Leeds

Preserving multiple experiences of Leeds for the future

Working life | Natasha McEnroe, Science Museum

'It was a lump in the throat moment': How the Science Museum acquired the vials used to deliver the first Covid vaccines

A watershed for the sector

Museums have learned a huge amount while acquiring items related to the pandemic and it could have a lasting impact on the sector. Simon Stephens reports