UCL Summer Courses

This summer the Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies

will be running a series of *Short Courses in Museum and Heritage Skills*

covering the following areas:

* Ethnographic Object Analysis * May 2011

Utilising collections at UCL, and with access to the British Museum and

the Horniman Museum, this training course sets out to develop the skills

and understanding necessary to analyse ethnographic collections from

Africa, the Americas and Oceania.

* Mount-Making for Museum Objects * 7 & 8 June 2011

The course introduces the process of making mounts using a variety of

object types (ethnographic, art, scientific, zoological, geological, etc).

This includes making mounts for stabilisation of objects in storage or

during transport and exhibition.

* Reading Objects: Curating and Researching Museum Collections * 20 & 21

June 2011

This course brings the latest approaches and thinking in material culture

studies to collections research and curation. Working with specific

collections at UCL, we explore issues of object biography, context and

production techniques and introduce methodological tools for conducting

collections-based research.

* An Introduction to Oral History for Museums and Cultural Heritage * 28 &

29 July 2011

The two day course provides an introduction to the uses of oral history in

museums and cultural heritage projects, addressing issues of research

design, ethics, interpretation and analysis, storage and dissemination.

For more details, have a look at the attached poster or follow this link:

http://www.mhm.ucl.ac.uk/training