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Come and try our tasty chicken soup I would like to respond to Sara Selwood’s review of the new Jewish Museum. Judging from her comments, she visited the museum soon after we opened, when there was an exceptionally high volume of visitors due to the tremendous positive media coverage ranging from the Times, Independent and …
Oral history gives arts projects an afterlife
Oral history is well established in museums, but is also becoming increasingly important in the arts. The most high-profile example is sculptor Antony Gormley’s One and Other project, which took place over 100 days and nights last summer. The live art event saw 2,400 people occupy the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square for 60 …
Green shoots hampered by weedy efforts
It’s disappointing that, since the end of the Museums Association’s (MA) consultation on sustainability just over a year ago, museum support bodies have failed to do much to help museums go green. On the face of it, our consultation was a success. Our aim was to get people in museums thinking about sustainability. They did: …
Short-term box-ticking projects do not change lives
Five years ago the education department at Dulwich Picture Gallery became concerned about the poor standards of care for the elderly and wondered what we as a fine art museum could do about it. It was never in question that we should do something. Community engagement has been a passion for the past 20 years, …