Stress: Building an Exhibition
By Kevin Guyan With the announcement of the Student Engagers’ autumn exhibition, here is the first in a series of blog posts that share personal insights into the curatorial process. Stress offers...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: Why can’t I touch museum objects?
By Stacy Hackner For humans, touch is an important way to gain information about an object. We can tell if something is soft or hard, heavy or light, smooth or rough or fluffy, pliable, sharp,...
View ArticleThe Student Engager Project featured on the LSE Impact Blog
The Student Engager project featured on the LSE Impact Blog, an online hub for those researching and working at universities who wish to maximise the impact of academic work. In the article, the...
View ArticleMaterials & Objects: What do researchers at UCL study?
Materials & Objects, an afternoon of short talks by UCL’s student engagers, will be taking place on Thursday 18 May 2017, UCL Art Museum, 2-4pm. Taking a look at the range of posts we’ve had on...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: What’s this Museum For?
By Hannah Wills A couple of weeks ago, whilst engaging in the Grant Museum, I started talking to some secondary school students on a group visit to the museum. During their visit, the students had...
View ArticleTime and Astronomy in the Petrie Museum
During a recent shift at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, I was asked by one visitor, ‘what’s your favourite object in the museum?’. As anyone who has visited the Petrie Museum will know,...
View ArticleA Fine Vintage: Grapes and Wine in Ancient Egypt
Some of the best conversations I have with visitors in the UCL museums start with the question ‘what’s that?’. A couple of weeks ago, I was asked about an object by a visitor to the Petrie Museum of...
View ArticleThe Imperial Gentleman of China
I am a primatologist; that is, a scientist who studies the behaviour, abundance and conservation status of monkeys, lemurs and apes. My specialty area and the focus of my PhD research here at...
View ArticleThe End of Art is Peace
The title of this blog refers to a favourite line from Seamus Heaney’s The Harvest Bow, a poem that explores the humanity of the writer’s father as he crafts a decorative knot made of woven straw...
View ArticleMuseum Engagement Outside the Museum
On a recent shift in the Grant Museum , I was talking to a small child about the bats. I explained that some bats will eat twice their own body weight in fruit in a single night. I like to share this...
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