Prof Fiona Candlin
@FionaCandlin
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Travelling the UK finding out why so many people opened their own museums in the 1970s and 80s. Director of @MuseumsMapping research project.
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Joined May 2014
An event for your diary: 'The Afterlives of Objects' Thursday 24th October 6pm at Birkbeck, Bloomsbury. Places are free but do book in advance. I'll be talking about our new research on museum closure and what happens to the collections. @Aimuseums
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More on the museum closure project. Our new blog discusses how we started visualising complex data. Read more here.
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@CHilton_BB personally I'm gutted that I never got to see the Museum of Street Lighting or the Tomato Museum in Guernsey.
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Some new info @markliebenrood
@FionaCandlin Durham Mining Museum relocated to Spennymoor and is still going. Abergynolwyn Museum, several @TalyllynRailway volunteers are on the case
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In 2009 Ray Guins and I published The Object Reader with @Routledge_MandC Tomorrow we're meeting up again at Birkbeck, London 6pm to discuss our continuing interest in objects. Places are free but do please book
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@Lacatus80 @MuseumsMapping We will be recording at least part of it. If you subscribe to the Mapping Museums Lab email (see website) then you'll get a notification when its posted online. Very pleased you enjoyed the OR
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RT @MuseumsBirkbeck: A reminder of this excellent event on Thursday 24th October at 6pm - make sure you book!
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@jamesinealing Although we also have several instances where a catalogue or record was photocopied and archived and it's survived, whereas the digital copies are long gone.
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@jamesinealing It's coming up as a real issue. I"ve come across two cases recently where staff carefully managed museum records so they could be carried over to another institution, and then the data was lost / dumped. And another where the complete inventory was skipped.
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What happens to collections when museums close? I'll be talking about that and other topics with Raiford Guins and Jo Morra at the 'Afterlives of Objects' event at Birkbeck, London, 6pm on 24/10. Everyone is welcome. @RSHistCentre @Aimuseums
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Collecting information on closed museums has proved to be an investigative challenge. I've written about our lines of enquiry in the new blog for @MuseumsMapping
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Raiford Guins (Books: Game After; Atari Design; Edited Clean Version) will be talking to me and Jo Morra about his new work on video game museums @BirkbeckHCA London at 6pm 24/10/24. Come along @GameHistoryOrg More information here:
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