Category: Blog
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A Museum on the Moon
By Dagmar Buck A museum in a shopping centre or on the moon kind of seems the same thing – both are places where you would not expect a museum. So, I was quite surprised when I first heard about the idea but soon became very fond of it once I had started volunteering at […]
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Dear Lewisham
Dear Lewisham, Thank you so much for having us. Over the last few days I’ve been disassembling the pop-up museum ready to ship the contents back to the National Maritime Museum for use in other parts of the Travellers’ Tails programme. This has given me the chance, as I watched the replica Dingo carried out […]
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Captain Cook’s Sat Nav
According to National Maritime Museum’s notes, the octant was the gadget that had empowered Captain Cook to locate the Polynesian islands off Australia. It was a gift to try to use it, to follow Cook. Our example had a mahogany frame and limb with a brass index arm and fittings including ivory plates on the […]
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Visitors to the Lewisham Pop-up
The diverse community of Lewisham seems to be represented in our Exploration case in the window of the Travellers’ Tails pop-up. And one of the many great things about working there is meeting all the fantastic range of visitors who walk through the door. Most aren’t expecting to find a museum in the middle of […]
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Update from the Travellers’ Tails Artists in Residence
It’s hard for me to believe that Cracked Light Arts is already halfway through our six-month residency with the National Maritime Museum. We’re part of Travellers’ Tails – a project all about exploration, art and science, which is inspired by two paintings by George Stubbs. One is of a kangaroo and one of a dingo […]
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Evolving the Kangaroo
By Simon Watt. I like games. They are great tool for learning and a fun way of actively engaging with material. And, of course, they can be highly enjoyable. I am lucky enough to have made games for many of my favourite museums including the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Wellcome Galleries. […]
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Thank you, Lewisham – together you made it!
By Helen Robertson, Organic Conservator Great news: with all your help you have collectively completed the gilding of the frame which will soon house the collaborative Dingo wax painting. It looks fantastic and will show off the painting beautifully. You still have time to be involved with this project as the last wax painting workshop […]
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Wax Painting Workshops
Adele Wright is a Paintings Conservator at Royal Museums Greenwich. I led interactive demonstrations on how to paint on wax, hoping to re-create Stubbs’ Dingo with the help of visitors to the Lewisham Shopping Centre. As part of the Traveller’s Tails Pop-up Museum’s workshops, the Conservation department of Royal Museums Greenwich has been running interactive […]
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A Story in Sound
A Story in Sound by Dan Rollings There is a wealth of stories to be told about Cook, Banks and Stubbs. The Portrait of a Large Dog and The Kongouro from New Holland are the outcome of an amazing tale or exploration, daring and secrecy. Cracked Light (the Travellers’ Tails’ Artists in Residence) decided to […]
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The Hunterian’s Digital Trail is still going strong!
A digital trail was designed to accompany the exhibition The Kangaroo and The Moose at The Hunterian Art Gallery. The exhibition at Glasgow contextualised the Kangaroo painting in relation to the collections of William Hunter, the founder of The Hunterian, a pioneering obstetrician and passionate collector of the eighteenth century who commissioned George Stubss to […]
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Conservation Workshops in Lewisham Pop-up Museum
Our aim is to create a collaborative reproduction of Stubbs’ Dingo, in a gilded frame, and we need you to help! Helen Robertson, Organic Conservator explains why. The Royal Museums Greenwich Conservation Department, in partnership with Travellers’ Tails, have started a series of drop in gilding and art workshops at our pop-up space in Lewisham […]
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Volunteer Talks at the Horniman
At the Horniman we recently hosted George Stubbs’ painting of the Kongouro from New Holland, on loan from the National Maritime Museum, part of the Travellers Tails project. This painting is the first representation of a kangaroo in Western Art and whether you think it looks more like a wallaby or an oversized mouse, you […]
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Departure
Today marks the final day of my choreographic residency at Royal Museums Greenwich and it is with a heavy heart that I conclude a 14 month journey that has been truly epic and inspirational for me as an artist. I have so much to take forward from my time at the museums and will look back […]
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Digital Exploring
by Fidian Warman, Director of SODA There’s been a whole lot of coding, soldering and cabinetry since we kicked off Travellers’ Tails in December 2014 and here are a a few learnings and tales from our travails and triumphs through the project….. It was a bold and open brief we responded to with a range […]
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Reflections on a kangaroo and a butterfly
Reflections on a kangaroo and a butterfly – posted by Maggie Reilly, curator of Zoology at The Hunterian In our exhibition ‘The Kangaroo and the Moose’ (http://tinyurl.com/jr3oplu) a kangaroo and some butterflies that once, 250 years ago, may have roamed in the same place once again occupy the same space. The kangaroo is George […]
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Volunteering with children
When I first came to visit the RE-THINK space it was last year as a student during my Museum and Galleries Curating Course. I would have never imagined to be selected as a volunteer few months later. I have been working at the Maritime Museum to engage the public for the Travellers’ Tails project during […]