Collections in Circulation: Mobile Museum Conference, 9-10 May 2019

C19th Japanese paper sample from Kew’s Economic Botany Collection

Registration has opened for this Conference, to be held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Thursday 9^th and Friday 10^th May 2019.

Full details of the programme and a link to booking registrationare now available.

The conference will bring together scholars from the UK and overseas with a shared interest in the mobility of museum collections, past and present. Their papers will address various aspects of the history of the circulation of objects and their re-mobilisation in the context of object exchange, educational projects and community engagement.

Confirmed speakers include Claudia Augustat, Paul Basu, Joshua Bell, Martha Fleming, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Luciana Martins, Wayne Modest, Catherine Nichols, Jude Philp, Daniel Simpson, Alice Stevenson and members of the Mobile Museum project team.

This conference is organised by the Mobile Museum project, a collaboration between Royal Holloway, University of London and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.