How many stories can a museum object tell? How can they end up on a museum label? Will there be enough space? Who decides which stories to tell?

100 Histories goes to Paris tomorrow. Pleased to see that many museum professionals have signed up for the workshop that will take place before the talk.

‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis? Beset by colonial controversy, difficult finances and the discovery of a thief on the inside, Britain’s most visited museum is in deep trouble. Can it restore its reputation?

Yep. Wait until you see the storerooms..."It was in a series of immense new warehouses on the outskirts [...] that I began to have some dim feel of the scale of the collection – though it seems impossible that any single human mind could contain the whole of it." www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Cambridge University collections hold 350,000 African artefacts The vast majority are in stores and they range from Maasai armlets and dodo skeletons to fossils.

Impressive. Many more stories to be told.... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy to see two of my projects featured in the advent calendar! @100histories.bsky.social tells previously hidden histories of museum objects - some of them might also have been hidden in storage.
Find out more here: www.routledge.com/Museum-Stora... and here: 100histories100worlds.org

The Akan Drum: An Instrument for Conversation by Benjamina Efua Dadzie and Kwan Pa Akan drum, collected in Virginia in ca. 1730, brought to England upon the request of Sir Hans Sloane. © 2020 The Trustees of the British Museum. The A…

Over the next weeks we will be posting global histories as told by voices of the Global South for our new Followers. How can the story of the Akan Drum be told as one of a living object, beyond the British Museum's History of the World in 100 Objects version? 100histories100worlds.org/the-akan-drum/

Another one to follow!

Our Work | MBC The Museum of British Colonialism is a network and platform for facilitating global conversations about British colonialism and its legacies. We make visible suppressed and marginalised histories and ...

You can read more about our work on our website here.

museumofbritishcolonialism.org/our-work/

2. Restitution of objects is about repair, about understanding context, rethinking assumptions about who knows and how to interpret objects. It's about who produces knowledge and to what effect.

We are finally here! A Christmas Tree in Kingston, Jamaica, where @100histories.bsky.social has launched in 2019. We brought together 15 scholars from 15 countries @UWImona to reflect on some of the original 100 Objects & experiment with ways to move beyond them: 100histories100worlds.org/workshop/

Hello #Museums people! Welcome to Bluesky. The starter pack you need is here - a list of UK museum folk. I've done my best to keep up with requests but please let me know if you or anyone you know has arrived and wants to be added. 60-ish slots left so there is room!

go.bsky.app/PYNaoQr

Knowledge Is Survival — Museum of Homelessness Life-affirming knowledge, skills, and power thrive in many communities facing marginalisation, oppression, and injustice. Knowledge is Survival, our inaugural workshop series, brought together six gro...

Continuing a Monday morning recovery theme,
each Tuesday we host the Peoples Recovery Project 3-5pm
If you are struggling come along ❤️
If you can't make it, Khosru from Peoples Recovery Project wrote a guide for people struggling
You can download it here:
museumofhomelessness.org/kis

I'm trying to build a starter kit for Black Europe and Afropean scholars and activists - but many ppl I can think of are not (yet) on bluesky. I need HELP 🖤 (please make recommendations and share)

go.bsky.app/PQA5Wiv

If that's you, please do drop us a message or a skeet/bleet/whatever/etc.? and we'll add you to the starter pack (soon to become list, we hope).

We also don't officially work on Fridays but sometimes the Cultural Zeitgeist doesn't wait 👍

Sorry to write perhaps the most pompous post of all time, but we're gaining followers at quite a rate and, despite our best efforts, we may miss you if you're a museum or heritage org new to the platform!

100 Histories of 100 Worlds in One Object Visit the post for more.

Hello Bluesky & new Followers!
How many stories do you think can 1 museum object tell? We say 100 histories of 100 worlds! Our project is the answer to the British Museum/BBC History of the World in 100 Objects. More than 10 years on & the world has changed. Find out more: 100histories100worlds.org

100 Histories of 100 Worlds in One Object Visit the post for more.

Thank you so much for the initiative! Please add us (our project) and me (museum history scholar) @mideastineurope.bsky.social Thank you so much!
100histories100worlds.org

Hey! We’ve compiled a starter pack of museums, galleries, archives and libraries in the UK who are right here on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/9o1sRWp

As I'll be following along #Museums2024 on Bluesky, thought it would be good to get a UK museumfolk starter pack going for those new or new-ish over here. Let me know who I should add!

go.bsky.app/PYNaoQr

Excited to see more archives joining Bluesky!

If you want more archival content in your feed try out these recent arrivals:

@rcpsgheritage.bsky.social
@salvarmyarchive.bsky.social
@burnslibrary.bsky.social
@scotsarchives.bsky.social

(more at go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2 )

We are finally here! A Christmas Tree in Kingston, Jamaica, where @100histories.bsky.social has launched in 2019. We brought together 15 scholars from 15 countries @UWImona to reflect on some of the original 100 Objects & experiment with ways to move beyond them: 100histories100worlds.org/workshop/