Introducing Curating Cultures, a core module for postgrad students taking the MA Curating Cultures.

Announcements

Assignment 1 (AS1) – 2023/24

Assignment 2 (AS2) – 2023/24

Oral 1 (OR1) – 2023/24

SOAS-Rietberg Internship: application deadline 11 March

Introduction panel credits - please check your exhibition title and name!

Archives, Objects and Performances - Religion and Folk Beliefs in Southeast Asia. 22 March

CONFLICT: Archives, Collections and Heritage; 25 March

Seminar: Colonial Pasts, Archival Futures. 27 March

Curating Cultures Exhibitions poster pdf

Curating Cultures MA Exhibitions webpage

Module overview

Module outline

Assessment

Essay marking criteria

Portfolio Marking Criteria

Portfolio suggestions on what to include

Examples of previous portfolios

Non-SOAS Staff Claims Form

SOAS Teaching Collection Exhibition Packs - cohort A

SOAS Teaching Collection Exhibition Packs - cohort B

Condition report

Showcase allocation

Week 1: 9 Jan, 10-11am - Introduction: histories and ideologies of curating. Dr. Heidi Tan

Week 1 pre-recorded lecture

Week 1 lecture

Object handling guidance

Next week's group work

Introduction

Handling Objects Video

Week 2: 16 Jan, 10-11am - Introduction to the SOAS collections. Prof. Scott Redford (meet at ground floor of library, room E23)

Objects of Instruction pp.4-7

Elizabeth Moore's presentation on the teaching collections

E. Moore powerpoint

Reading list: Middle East Archaeology Collection

Southeast Asia reading list

Handling Objects

Alphawood Alumni &amp; Moore unpublished notes on lacquer

Group Project Allocation List

Week 2 tutorial - unpacking and object handling

Week 3: 23 Jan, 10-11am – Collecting. Dr. Heidi Tan

Macdonald, Sharon (2011) ‘Collecting Practices’, in A Companion to Museum Studies, edited by, Sharon Macdonald. Oxford: Blackwell, pp 81-97.

Pearce, Susan (1992) ‘Collecting: shaping the world’, in Museums, objects and collections: a cultural study, edited by Susan Pearce. Leicester: Leicester University Press, pp 68-88.

Kreps, Christina (2004) "The Idea of 'Pusaka' as an Indigenous Form of Cultural Heritage Preservation" in Performing objects: museums, material culture and performance in Southeast Asia edited by Arero and Kingdon. London: Horniman Museum, pp1-14.

Week 3 lecture: Collecting

Week 3 lecture recording

CC discussion forum: week 2

Week 4: 30 Jan, 10-11am – Interpreting museum texts and objects. Lecture by Asha McLoughlin, British Museum and Dr. Heidi Tan

Exhibition text writing guides

Ekarv, Margareta (1994) ‘Combating redundancy: writing texts for exhibitions’ in Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean (ed) The educational role of the museum, London and New York: Routledge, pp 201-204.

Coxall - Open Minds

Alberti, Samuel (2005) ‘Objects and the Museum’ in The History of Science Society, 96, pp 559-571

Week 4 additional lecture slides: Interpreting Objects

Week 4 additional lecture slides: Interpreting Museum Texts

Week 4 lecture by Asha McLoughlin (recording)

Week 4 lecture by Asha McLoughlin

Week 4 discussion forum: please post your thoughts about interpretation strategies here!

Week 5: 6 Feb, 10-11am – Exhibition development. Dr. Heidi Tan

Dean, David (1994) ‘The exhibition development process’ in The educational role of the museum, edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill. London: Routledge, pp. 191–200.

Week 5: Exhibition development (recorded powerpoint)

Week 5 discussion forum

Week 6: 20 Feb, 10-11am – Preventive conservation and object displays

Week 6 lecture

Brunei Gallery Condition Checking Report

Condition Report Glossary

Self-adhesive board

Collection Care and Conservation at SOAS_2023

CC Week 6 discussion forum

Week 7: 27 Feb,10-11am – Exhibition planning: Collecting and Displaying China in the National Museum of Scotland and the Oriental Museum, Durham University. Dr. Qin Cao, Curator: Chinese Collections, the Oriental Museum, Durham University

Buckland - East Asia Gallery - Orientations

Cao - Kingfisher Headdress

Cao - Display China at NMS

Week 7 Zoom link for lecture by Dr. Qin Cao

CC week 7 discussion forum

Week 8: 5 March,10-11am – Curating today: issues, debates, and decolonisation. Dr. Heidi Tan

Performing objects : museum, material culture and performance in Southeast Asia

CC week 8 discussion forum

Creating posters and text panels

Moving and installing objects

Alphawood Alumni & Moore unpublished notes on lacquer