Blog posts
- Blog category
- Contemporary Curators
Contemporary Collecting: An Ethical Toolkit for Museum Practitioners
By Ellie Miles, , 2 minute readContemporary collecting involves people making decisions about preserving lived experience, knowledge, stories and objects and as such can venture into complicated ethical territory. Ellie Miles, together with other Museum practitioners, has created a toolkit which aims to be a useful resource for people embarking on contemporary collecting.
Santa's got a new sleigh! Check out what we have planned for families this Christmas.
- Blog category
- Contemporary Curators
#MyJourneyToPride - Here's what happened!
By Ellie Miles, , 3 minute readWe partnered up with museum freelancer Sacha Coward and invited people to use the #MyJourneyToPride hashtag to document and share their stories of travelling to Pride in London and UK Black Pride 2019. We also asked some people to record video diaries of their journeys in order to create a picture of the lived experience of a group of people from the LGBT+ community in London in 2019. Find out what happened.
- Blog category
- Collections
- Contemporary Curators
#MyJourneyToPride – Collecting LGBT+ experiences
By Ellie Miles,Documentary Curator Ellie Miles introduces our new My Journey to Pride project - asking you to document your journey to 2019 pride parades
- Blog category
- Contemporary Curators
Social Stations – A contemporary collecting project
, 2 minute readSusanna Cordner explores our Social Stations projects, celebrating how community and grassroots projects are reclaiming spaces at stations for public and/or environmental benefit
Gonzalo de Ana Rodríguez – Transport for London employee and member of OUTbound , TfL’s LGBT+ Staff Network – shares how London transport has shaped his relationships and experiences.
Celebrating the Victoria Line's 50th, Jubilee Line's 40th and District Lines 150th anniversaries at the Acton Depot Open Weekend. Find out more about the Tube lines you Love!
In this blog Andy De Santis – Vice Chair of OUTbound , TfL’s LGBT+ Staff Network – shares with us how London transport has shaped his relationships and experiences.