Museums Unlocked
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MuseumsUnlocked celebrated museums, art, culture & heritage during 2020's lockdowns, curated by Dan Hicks
Oxford
Joined May 2020
✨Museums are re-opening✨ share your pictures, thoughts and feelings as you re-visit the galleries and collections you love, or new exhibitions that have just opened — by replying below and/or by using the hashtag #MuseumsUnlocked
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June 11th at Housmans: EVERY MONUMENT WILL FALL by Dan Hicks in conversation with Dr Mai Musié. "...revealing enduring legacies of militarism, slavery, racism and white supremacy hardwired into the heart of our cultural institutions." https://t.co/eDtCMPCmDH
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“Two new books by Nigel Biggar and Adam Kuper advocate for wilful amnesia and collective repression of British colonial brutality.“ Beware the Rise of Anti-Anti-Colonialism https://t.co/MSKDb7Ly5W via @hyperallergic
hyperallergic.com
Two new books by Nigel Biggar and Adam Kuper advocate for wilful amnesia and collective repression of British colonial brutality.
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Public Service Broadcasting (in every sense), fab guests. do have a listen…
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Hew Locke realized what he previously called an "impossible proposal" — building a ship around a public statue of Queen Victoria.
hyperallergic.com
The artist realized what he previously called an "impossible proposal," building a ship around a public statue of Queen Victoria, where she's joined by five smaller replicas of herself.
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Valuable thread on who is picking our allegedly arm's length museum trustees nowadays.
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@MuseumoftheHome we're looking for a Chair of Trustees to help us continue the transformation of the Museum. Please take a look and apply : https://t.co/QUNsRk5QpP (Deadline, 8 June 2022) @MuseumsUnlocked please share 🙏🏾
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Happy #NCPH2022! All week we’ll be posting 60(ish) second interviews with our awardees. Join us in honoring our winners and get to know them a little better! First up: The 2022 NCPH Book Award goes to @profdanhicks for “The Brutish Museums.” Congrats Dan! https://t.co/OsULWhMvES
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EVENT: The War on Culture: Where Next? Lecture Given by Professor Dan Hicks, Author of The Brutish Museums for the Bernie Grant Memorial Lecture 2022 Date: 7th April 2022 7:30pm at @BGArtsCentre Purchase your £6 Tickets today 👇👇👇 https://t.co/xnF68OTACo
@profdanhicks
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My latest. When the British plundered the Benin Bronzes in 1897, they sold them to help finance their murderous colonial escapades. To borrow from @MarcFennell, this is not just loot. The @britishmuseum and Boston's MFA are holding on to "blood art". https://t.co/ENcYqgh7Af
washingtonpost.com
Proudly owning and displaying stolen art are no less shocking than proudly owning and displaying diamonds that play a role in killing people.
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The Museum of East Anglian Life is due “potentially quite radical changes,” according to management: https://t.co/AcwQBKzQwB The name and ethos is to shift to “telling interesting stories about food,” while the existing collection is deteriorating alarmingly. #savemuseumealife
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Disastrous appearance on BBC Radio Suffolk @lisamuseum. The people of East Anglia clearly oppose this change and deserve proper consultation. And they deserve better than for the custodians of its heritage to giggle about it being "one of those strange areas." #savemuseumealife
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Please sign and share the petition: https://t.co/uDeax1g7V9
change.org
Save the Museum of East Anglian Life
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@StuffMummyMakes @LisaMuseum @BBCSuffolk @museumealife @cousinsjenny @sharongoddard @LisaMuseum Are you listening? This is a deeply unpopular move. Please have the wisdom to step back and at least do a proper consultation now the scale of opposition is clear. We will help you and work with you gladly. #savemuseumealife
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@MuseumEALife how can you justify the ill-conceived and unwanted food museum vanity project when your collection is seriously dilapidated? #savemuseumealife
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We are happy to welcome author and curator @profdanhicks as this year’s speaker for our Goethe Annual #Lecture at the Goethe-Institut #London! The lecture will take place #InHouse and #online as a live stream on 14 Jan 2022! 🎥 Book your ticket here ⬇️ https://t.co/cCM02DtzyE
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Delighted to say we have awarded our most significant prize - the @BritishAcademy_ President’s Medal - to @DavidOlusoga for his outstanding contribution to the humanities and social sciences https://t.co/4uVkGke7Zx
thebritishacademy.ac.uk
The British Academy has awarded the President’s Medal in 2021 to the broadcaster and historian Professor David Olusoga in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the humanities and social...
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