City Walls and Museum Windows: my collaborative research at the Museum of London
Abstract:
The Museum of London has been working on a major re-display of its collection, re-telling the story of London since the great fire in 1666. Using £20million and the lower floor galleries of the existing building, the ‘Galleries of Modern London’ project will be the museum’s first attempt to talk about London right up until to the present day. My research involves collaborating with the museum, to look at the ways that global cities have been represented in museums; and the Galleries of Modern London in particular.
Collaboration is integral to my research; the museum’s support has given me the chance to become embedded in the museum. I have been able to reflect and analyse the making of the galleries first hand; working on the new galleries being the clearest example. The presentation will discuss the type of research that the collaborative structure has enabled me to carry out and why collaboration is so important to my PhD.
