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🔍 Bristol glass, taxidermy pangolin & colonial silences—what stories do they tell?

Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov.
Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists.

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A group of people is gathered around a large installation table covered with colourful patterned tiles, engaging in an activity. The setting is the Migration Museum, with black-and-white historical photographs on the walls in the background. One woman in the foreground is smiling at the camera, while the others are intently looking at or touching the tiles on the table.

Join us on 9 July to explore how museums can engage with migration and Empire histories in nuanced, and locally relevant ways — through the lens of learning programmes and education practice.

Photo: University of Greenwich

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Museum & Society Museum and Society is an independent peer reviewed journal bringing together new writing by academics and museum professionals on the subject of museums. It is both international in scope and at the c...

Check out this amazing special issue that's just dropped in the journal 'Museum & Society'. The new bumper issue is titled "Mobilizing Museum Minerals" and features some superstar curators. We can't wait to get stuck in. #DecolonisingMuseums #DecolonisingGeology

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