Posts by venue: Discovery Museum

BFI Mediatheque

Discovery Museum   The Archives
Posted by administrator on August 26, 2010     Permalink     Comments (1)

I’m the senior manager responsible for Archives, where we generally work with historical documents on parchment or paper, sometimes hundreds of years old. The most exciting recent development for the Archives, however, has been the opening of the BFI Mediatheque… Read more

Supporting volunteering in Museums

Discovery Museum   Volunteering
Posted by administrator on August 12, 2010     Permalink     Comments (2)

What do volunteers do within the Museums you may wonder… I can assure you that it is more than you may realise! I’m the Culture Track Project Coordinator and I support a number of volunteers who are unemployed to develop… Read more

Iain Watson, Acting Director

Art   Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Discovery Museum   Great North Museum: Hancock
Posted by administrator on July 30, 2010     Permalink     Comments (2)

When you tell people that you work in museums they always want to share with you their thoughts about museums – almost everyone has experience of museums and has views about what they like and dislike. As well as all… Read more

Behind the scenes at the museum! Collections Management in Action

Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Discovery Museum
Posted by administrator on July 12, 2010     Permalink     Leave a comment

Hello and thanks for looking at my blog. In these posts I’ll be telling you about how we manage TWAM’s collections and the people who are involved.  Here is a recent picture of the Collections Management Team. Aren’t they a lovely bunch! It… Read more

That’s the way to do it

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Social History
Posted by administrator on July 12, 2010     Permalink     Comments (8)

We’d like to welcome our very first set of Punch and Judy dolls into the history collection at TWAM. These are not just any Punch and Judy dolls. They were given to the museum by Ann Small, the puppets belonged… Read more