The benefits of sitting and staring

Visitors in the National Museum of Scotland

Like most exhibit developers, I’m an awful person to go to a museum with.  I prod, poke, obsess, push, pull, stroke and wax lyrical about the various elements which make… Read The Rest →

The Importance of Coordinating Data-Vis in Museums

Infographic at the How We Did exhibition

As a medium to generate engagement with and exploration of big datasets, held or used by museums, data visualisation and infographics have the potential to rework staff and visitors’ understanding… Read The Rest →

The case for a permanent gallery dedicated to women in science

Photo credit: micahb37 (creative commons) http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahb37/

The missing galleries: #1 The case for a permanent gallery dedicated to women in science. If one is lucky enough to travel to the same set of museums in a… Read The Rest →

The Grant Museum Micrarium

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As the old adage goes ‘more is less’, well, more or less. The new micrarium in the Grant Museum, London, is a good example of the opposite adage, which is… Read The Rest →

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