Tag: collections
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A New Chapter in Somerset
For the past five years I had been working in Hampshire across the museums and collections in various capacities and had the best time building up my knowledge and experience with such excellent teams of people at Hampshire Cultural Trust. In June though, an opportunity came up in Bridgwater, admittedly not a town I was…
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Object Oddities: The Pickle Dish
Sometimes an object grabs your attention when you’re doing a routine task such as auditing a collection. Maybe it’s a collection that hasn’t been looked at in too much detail as of late. And maybe within that you find a well-researched object that needs to be shouted about such as this one! A few years…
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Object Oddities: The Ham
One of the best things about my job is the sheer variety of the collection that I work with. A consequence of this is that you get led down bizarre rabbit holes, chasing documentation and unravelling stories about objects that might not be as obviously fascinating to other people as they are to you. For…