Celebrating Museums And Imagination 2020
'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.
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.
This is where we always feared it was going
The govt’s Agriculture Bill
1. Ditches British Animal Welfare standards
2. Will mean UK is flooded with cheap low quality food.
3. Will put UK farms at huge disadvantage
4. Uk will not be able to sell into their biggest market, the EU, because of the lowering of standards
Cinema museum, Turin gets my vote. Has a wondrous collection of magic lantern slides and other semi magical devices for turning light into pictures and stories #MuseumsUnlocked
Our boxes of grand/parents letters and photos and ...stuff .... are in the attic. I eye them and edge round them as if they were unexploded bombs. https://t.co/x3d8P8ING2
