Opinion
No pain, no gain
Last year, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF) published a report entitled Whose Cake Is It Anyway? by Bernadette Lynch. Its conclusion raised concerns about a tendency for participation work in UK museums and galleries to be short-term, not embedded, and what Lynch calls “empowerment-lite”. To address the issues raised by the report, PHF has launched …
Letters
The contributions made by human remains Sorcha Ní Fóghlúda’s letter recommending the disposal of the skeleton of Charles Byrne, the “Irish Giant” is a welcome contribution to the discussion on these important human remains: some clarifications may enhance this dialogue. Although it is unlikely he would have chosen to be dissected, there is no direct …
Letters
Return the human remains that are closer to home Following the return of human remains from UK museums to former colonial territories such as Australia, North America and most recently the Torres Strait Islands, isn’t it about time that the Royal College of Surgeons of England’s Hunterian Museum in London appropriately disposed of the remains …
Genuine participation has a long way to go
The recent Cultural Equalities Now conference, hosted by the British Museum in partnership with the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past and Diversity and Heritage Group, took a timely look at equalities and diversity work in a new legal, policy and funding landscape. Working on this with practitioners and policy makers made me …