Celebrating Museums And Imagination 2020
'Rachel Morris is one of the smartest storytellers I have ever met . . . a wonderful and beguiling book.'
James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life.
'In this elegant and eloquent book Morris explores the contents of the boxes under her bed to calmly piece together a family pattern of loss, sadness and extreme eccentricity. As a museum-maker, she meditates on the nature of museums: the Museums of Me we all carry in our heads, and the public institutions in which variations of the world's history are told . . . a delight.'
Julia Blackburn, author of Time Song: In Search of Doggerland.
'A fascinating meditation on the life of objects and their power to trigger our memories. It awakened my curiosity to the realms of history, pain and longing we access through the simple act of collecting.'
Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee.
Friday August 21st, 10 am
Rachel interviewed by Lilley Mitchell on BBC Radio Oxford
Monday August 24th, 2.30 pm
Rachel on BBC Radio Suffolk
Thursday August 27th, 2 pm
Rachel interviewed by Jo Good on BBC Radio London
Friday August 28th, 1.15 pm
Rachel on BBC Radio Somerset
Rachel says, ‘The Museum of Marco Polo is my website for my book, The Museum Makers’, published by September Publishing on 27th August 2020; and also for my blog and for my introduction to fictional museums. I was one of the founding directors of Metaphor, a design company with a long history of designing exhibitions and masterplanning museums round the world. Read and enjoy the blogs, Order my book if you’d like to.
"The written part gives us the knowledge, but it is the UNWRITTEN part that gives us opportunity to PICTURE things" Wolfang Iser. The reading process.
Hugely enjoying #englishpastoral by @herdyshepherd1 - and particularly admiring how powerfully he unfolds a farming story as big as the twentieth century
The Museum Makers by @MoMarcoPolo review: 'beautifully written and endlessly fascinating' . Thanks to the Divine Writer... https://t.co/ISDkGGiXSp
