During the spring of 2009 a running joke appeared in the letters page of The Guardian newspaper. Prompted by a…
Plummer Tower Museum
Plummer Tower was part of the old walls of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which were built from the mid-13th century to the middle…
Fraserburgh Heritage Centre
In the course of their research, the Mapping Museums team have been collecting photos of museums, which will be featured…
Building the Database
The Mapping Museums project is an interdisciplinary one between Arts and Computer Science and as such a challenge in many…
The Smallest Museum in the UK?
In 1983 the Museums and Galleries Commissions noted ‘many’ of new museums being established across the UK were ‘very small’…
Interdisciplinarity
When Fiona Candlin and I first met up in 2015 to discuss the possibility of a research project that would…
AIM! I’m going to map forever…
Last week the Mapping Museums team attended the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) annual conference hosted at Chatham Historic Dockyard.…
Getting started: Building the database
The Mapping Museums project aims to identify trends in the growth of independent museums from 1960 to 2020. In order…
Problems with the Data
When I first began this research I had assumed that there was very little data on the museums that were…
Not Knowing About Museums
There is a lot that we don’t know about museums. In an age when it is possible to download an…