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Walking, Writing
I like explorations that allow me to look differently at objects. Physicality of an object is for me as important as the object’s potential. How does it taste? How does it sound? What could it do? What unexpected use it may have? I like explorations that can take place in the mornings, before I am […]
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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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Walking and Writing
by Ania Bas and Mercy Sword I like explorations that allow me to look differently at objects. Physicality of an object is for me as important as the object’s potential. How does it taste? How does it sound? What could it do? What unexpected use it may have? I like explorations that can take place […]
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Tales from a Digital Explorer
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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Volunteering with families and children
Post by Gaia Bianchi, Explorer Volunteer 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 I would be selected as a volunteer few months later. I have been working at the Maritime Museum to engage the public […]
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Is this Kongouro a self portrait of the artist?
Post by Richard Crawford The ‘Kongouro’ that Stubbs painted cannot be called a likeness of the real animal. It is strikingly obvious that Stubbs, who famously spent months studying horse anatomy, could have made a better job of the kangaroo’s body had he had the skeleton to support the empty skin upon. As it […]
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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 Stubbs’s famous painting and the butterflies are dead […]
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Cloth from the Mulberry Tree
I’m interested in costume history, so on my first morning as a volunteer, I was delighted to find a piece of tapa cloth in the ReThink Exploration space. It is believed to have come from Niue, an island in the Pacific near Tonga and Samoa. The cloth is papery to touch, fairly stiff and decorated […]
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The Narrow Road to the Deep South: A Poetry Expedition
As a poet and a Londoner, I have long been fascinated by the River Thames and how being on, in or near water affects our moods and by extension our creativity. The Narrow Road to the Deep South:A Poetry Expedition was a writers’ workshop that took place in a number of locations on land and on water as part of the […]
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Digital Explorer
I’ve just been playing on the new Digital Explorer tool in Re:Think. This is a lovely new interface which allows you to build your own mini ‘island’ museum by collecting images, which ‘float’ past you on the screen. You can pick six images using a hand-held wooden boat-shaped device, and your images are determined by the previous image you collected. […]
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Island Exploring
Since my September post the expedition trips for Who is the land have accelerated in frequency and distance. As a part of our movement research and cultivation of film material Stacie and I have voyaged to the Isle of Arran (off of Scotland’s West coast) the Southern coast of Cornwall and have just returned from Whitby […]
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Any spare mermaids?
We’re delighted to see this splendid write up of the Grant Museum’s exhibition in The Guardian. If we do stumble across any mermaid specimens in the course of the rest of the project we’ll definitely send them your way, Jack!
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A Tale of Two Cooks
Last week our Maritime Lecture Series: The Art and Science of Exploration got underway with ‘The pencle* of an able painter’ with our curator of art Dr Katy Barrett. The Art and Science of Exploration, 1768-80 in the Queen’s House represents the work of artists on all three of Captain Cook’s voyages between 1768 and 1780 and how these artistic works […]
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Introducing the Explorer Volunteers
I’m very pleased to introduce our new team of Explorer Volunteers to the museum and the Travellers’ Tails project: Albert, Caroline, Josie, Katie, Lauren, Mafe, Marie, Mercy, Shilpa and Sunila. The team bring a fantastic amount of enthusiasm and interest in museums, learning and research and are hoping to gain an insight into museum life […]
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East Coast Encounter Re-imagining the 1770 encounter
East Coast Encounter exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum re-imagines the encounters between James Cook and his crew with Aboriginal people in 1770. The exhibition presents this shared story from various perspectives. Cook’s voyage along the Australian east coast is a significant event in Australian history. At Bedanug, which he named Possession Island, Cook […]