The Museum Series

The Museum Series is a collection of interviews with inspirational and successful professionals from across the museums sector including Directors, Consultants, Artists and Educators.

The Museum Series: The Educator

Oxford, November 2018. Article as featured on The Huffington Post Young Voices Blog. Last winter the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology were the hosts of a Children in Need funded project run by Oxford Fusion Arts and Art Psychotherapist, Helen Edwards. The 12 week project saw 30 children from three local Oxford primary schools…

The Museum Series: The Consultant

Barcelona, March 2016. Article as featured on The Huffington Post Young Voices Blog. In 2016 I met Ngaire Blankenberg, European Director and Principal Consultant at Lord Cultural Resources; Co-Founder of the Museum of AIDS in Africa; Co-author of Cities, Museums and Soft Power and an all-round inspirational human with a voice which needs to be…

The Museum Series: The Artist and Curator

London, July 2016. Article as featured on The Huffington Post Young Voices Blog. This month I spoke with the brilliant Matt Smith, an artist and curator based in Hove, UK. Matt discussed the links between art and curatorship and the opportunities artistic residencies can give to both artists and museums.  As both artist and curator…

The Museum Series: From Dancer to Operations Director at the Picasso Museum

Barcelona, March 2016. Article as featured on The Huffington Post Young Voices Blog. In a traditional Catalan restaurant in Barcelona I spoke with the charming Deirdre Haughey Barquin, Operations Director and Head of Visitor Services and Events at the Picasso Museum, and posed the main questions of this series of interviews with a wide range…

The Museum Series: Exploring other ways to work in and with museums

The Museum Series is a collection of interviews with inspirational and successful professionals from across the museums sector. Working in, with or for a museum is a fantastic experience, especially for the adventurous of mind and those with a thirst for being around history, art and artefacts on a daily basis. However, museums, art galleries…