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.
I’m staying home.
My Polish neighbours are leaving they told me they no longer feel safe or welcome in UK &asked I help their old English neighbour now with her essential shopping,garden&prescriptions knowing I do for 3 others as they can't take this any more. What the fcuk has happened to us?😔🤬
Extracts from the plague diary of Mark ne-Francois-Pepys
May 30th 1665
Up pretty betimes to attend a committee of my think tank, Think, Tank! at the eastbound Days Inn, Clacket Lane. Melanie Philips and Daniel Hannan already in our conference room,
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