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A wooden O
Alan Farlie, Exhibition designer, RFK Architects Ltd Explaining the job of an exhibition designer is not straightforward as it depends on the type of exhibition and the type of story being told. For a...
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Pompeii and Herculaneum: two ordinary cities with an extraordinary story
David Prudames, British Museum In AD 79, late in the year, two cities – Herculaneum and Pompeii – along with various small towns, villages, and farms in the south of Italy were wiped out in just 24...
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Digging deeper into Shakespeare
Julian Bowsher, Senior Archaeologist, Museum of London Archaeology For me, the Shakespeare; staging the world exhibition at the British Museum creates a wonderful journey through the worlds we...
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Filming Shakespeare’s magic
Professor Tony Howard, University of Warwick Caliban in The Tempest. Courtesy of the Don Boyd Archive at the Bill Douglas Centre, University of Exeter When I was invited to think about curating a film...
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Guy Fawkes, Shakespeare and Occupy
Sheila O’Connell, curator, British Museum Members of the Occupy movement have recently taken to wearing Guy Fawkes masks. The face is distantly based on a print of the Gunpowder Plotters published in...
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Will the penny drop?
Barrie Cook, exhibition curator, British Museum Perhaps there should be an official warning: working in a museum can spoil your fun. Well, not really and I don’t want it put anyone off a museum career,...
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Quoting Shakespeare
Dr Peter Kirwan, University of Nottingham As you walk around the exhibition Shakespeare: staging the world, you’ll see objects drawn from across continents and time periods, all linked by Shakespeare....
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Bubbles and bankruptcy: financial crises in Britain since 1700
Thomas Hockenhull, curator, British Museum The 2008 banking crisis plunged the UK into a recession from which it has been struggling to recover ever since. However, this crisis is not the first to have...
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The spirit of Sierra Leone in London
Paul Basu, University College London The latest Asahi Shimbun Display Sowei mask: spirit of Sierra Leone opened to the public this week. The display is the most recent outcome of collaborations between...
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Telling the human story of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Vanessa Baldwin, exhibition project curator, British Museum Many of the objects on display in the exhibition Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, are not artefacts, they are people’s possessions....
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Herculaneum: the unknown city
Vanessa Baldwin, exhibition project curator, British Museum For many people visiting the exhibition, Life and Death Pompeii and Herculaneum, it may be the first time they have encountered the smaller...
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The Mildenhall treasure
Richard Hobbs, exhibition curator, British Museum This week, the display Silver service: fine dining in Roman Britain opened. It features the magnificent Great Dish from the Mildenhall treasure, an...
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Illustrating the discovery of the Mildenhall treasure
Ralph Steadman, artist Who knows when one ploughs a field what may be unearthed? This is what attracted me to the Roald Dahl story of the Mildenhall treasure. Illustration of the discovery of the...
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AD 79 in HD: broadcasting Pompeii Live
Tim Plyming, Head of Digital Media and Publishing, British Museum At time of writing we are under a week away from two live cinema events for the British Museum exhibition Life and death in Pompeii and...
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Heat, steam and Roman cooking
Sally Grainger, chef and author There are two exhibitions on at the British Museum at the moment which relate to the theme of Roman cooking and dining. Silver service: fine dining in Roman Britain...
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A very versatile Roman oven
Sally Grainger, chef and author In my previous post about Roman cooking I described a type of oven used to bake and roast food about 2,000 years ago. Known as a clibanus it was a sophisticated piece of...
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From Parthian chicken to flat breads: experimenting with a Roman oven
Sally Grainger, chef and author In previous posts I introduced the different types of ancient portable ovens which are generally called either clibanus or testum. The former term is the more...
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Made in China: an imperial Ming vase
Yu-Ping Luk, Exhibition Project Curator, British Museum Early last year, when the idea of a Spotlight tour to complement the BP exhibition Ming: 50 years that changed China was raised, we had to...
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Vikings: hearts of darkness?
Tom Williams, Exhibition Project Curator, British Museum The tidal current runs to and fro […] crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea....
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The Viking way of death
Neil Price, Professor of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen Among the most fascinating things in the BP exhibition Vikings: life and legend are the numerous objects from burials and graves. The way...
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