This post is about my two volunteer roles in Kenwood House, an English Heritage (EH) property in London, and in Pitt Rivers Museum, in Oxford. 1. Kenwood House, London Before I arrived in the UK, I had started looking for museums or galleries near Leicester that recruited volunteers. I had…

I should have not booked the wrong ticket carelessly, and I should have not planned two day trips back-to-back, but after I got back from Chesterfield, I parted for Derby the next day, 29 April. I was going to visit Calke Abbey, which was about an hour on bus from…

The time has passed April, when I had my first supervision on my dissertation. As I worked on more reading and info, I decided to take a break while there was a sale season of train tickets. I began typing up more entries of journals, as the dates of some…

The MAGs (Museum and Gallery student union) has arranged a day trip to Bristol with some funding from the Leicester student union. …

This is the last post on the specialisms. Talk to Me, Death, In A Few or More Words is the assignment of module. On the opposite of a traditional 2000-word essay on a specific theme, prof asked us to write a creative piece on a certain object. We were given…

Another feature of the M&K specialisms was the Friday screenings. I felt surprised when viewing the course catalogue to learn that film watching was incorporated in lectures, since none of the previous modules had addressed this art form in any way. This is also a reason why I registered M&K…

This post is about another topic that I find interesting in M&K: the dollhouses and the miniature, and I will recount our second field trip to the Brontë Parsonage in Yorkshire. In the beginning of the module, when discussing the life of Henry Wellcome, the interesting product — the mini…

The first field trip of (Specialism) Museum & Knowledge was to the Gordon Pathology Museum in London. It was during the first week of the module, when we focused on how medical histories and disciplines like pathology, anatomy, and surgical achievements formed a unique section in museum practices. …