Curating the Global City

I’m Ellie Miles.

I’m working on a PhD about museums of global cities, especially about the Museum of London.

I’m doing a lot of research at the moment about the Galleries of Modern London, which opened at the museum in May 2010.  The galleries express a vision of London from 1666 to the present day city, and I’m interested in studying how this representation has been put together.  This means I spend time interviewing staff, attending meetings and sometimes writing captions, as well as researching the history of the museum and museum studies literature.

As time goes on I hope to make papers and pictures available here, but for now this blog is a way of explaining what I do to other people, it’s also a way to explore it myself.

Thank-you for reading, I would be interested to read your comments.