Connecting Collections: Successful partnership working across the heritage sector

Tilly Blyth, Curator of Computing and Information — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:53:21 +0000

Bookings are now open for this free event on Friday 5^th March hosted by BT Connected Earth and the Collections Trust.

Date: 5^th March 2010

Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm

Venue: BT Centre, 81 Newgate Street, London EC1A 7AJ

The day will celebrate successful collaborative partnerships across museums, libraries, archives and beyond, showcasing projects that have found exciting ways of making collections accessible to new audiences.

Through breakout sessions and a panel discussion, the event will also highlight how these partnerships can inspire future projects.

Speakers include:

Roy Clare, MLA – Keynote address
Nick Poole, Collections Trust – Introduction
Jason Webber, Museum of London – Exploring 20^th Century London
Siân Wynn-Jones, BT Connected Earth – Contemporary Collecting in Partnership: a reality matrix
Simon Floyd, Renaissance East of England – SHARE
Liza Giffen, University of Leeds & Kirsty Shields, M&S Archive – Marks in Time
Tilly Blyth, Science Museum – Locating Communications Heritage
Anra Kennedy, Culture 24 – Caboodle
Almut Grüner, Thackray Museum & UKMCG SSN – Medicine at the Movies

Lunch and refreshments will be provided, and there will be plenty of opportunity to network with colleagues and discuss current issues.

To reserve your free place, please complete the booking form at: http://tiny.cc/Ib08K

Welcome to our Research Network

Tilly Blyth, Curator of Computing and Information — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:20:42 +0000

Imagine you are on a journey across Britain. The landscape you pass through is rich in historical meaning, yet the knowledge of this history is compartmentalised: some lies in everyday experiences and memories, some lies in scholarly monographs, some is found on display (and even more, behind the scenes) in our great museums. We live in an old
country – but its meaning can be disconnected and hidden. Surprisingly this situation is true even for the aspects of our lives that seem so modern, so vivid, so everyday: the communications technologies that we use to organise our lives.

This research network will look at how we can reconnect this meaning to our lives. It will explore the potential benefits of and barriers to the creation of a mobile and web service in the history of communications. The project will develop a small pilot service to look at what happens when users can access, view and create the history of communications technology in relevant locations. Through the pilot project the research will share knowledge across a network of academic historians of science and technology, museum professionals, commercial partners, and users.

Find out more about this project, its research themes and participants.

The research network is a collaboration between UCL, Science Museum, Illumina Digital and BT. If you would like to know more about the network then please contact:

Dr Tilly Blyth
Curator of Computing and Information
Science Museum
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2DD
tilly.blyth@sciencemuseum.org.uk
0207 942 4211

Locating Communications Heritage » Science Museum

Connecting Collections: Successful partnership working across the heritage sector

Welcome to our Research Network