Candlin, Fiona (2025) Objects from closed museums. In: Political Ecologies seminar series, 04 Feb 2025, London, UK. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Museum closure is common. In the UK over 500 museums have closed since 2000; they include tiny museums with only a few hundred visitors per year and large museums with audiences in the tens of thousands; private, independent, and local authority museums; and museums of Asian music, of mining, and of quilts, among other topics. Drawing on new research from the Mapping Museums Lab at Birkbeck, this paper asks what happens to their collections. Do the objects go to other museums or are they moved into storage? What is scrapped or sold and what gets left behind? What are the factors and values that impact on these flows of objects?
Metadata
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture) |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Fiona Candlin |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2025 11:15 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Mar 2025 11:15 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/55071 |
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