Tag: Museums Records and researchThe Cairo Museum that never wasFriday 26 April 2019Very few things are actually better than the opening of a new archaeological museum....Records and researchThe other battle of SamarraFriday 18 August 2017In April 1917 the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force captured Samarra. The authorities made a discovery...Records and researchThe beginnings of the Iraq MuseumTuesday 15 November 2016A new museum has opened in Basra - this took me back to the...Behind the scenes‘A trickle of Pharaonic valuables’Friday 5 February 2016We look behind the scenes of the British Museum's Tutankhamun exhibition in 1972…...Behind the scenesEndings and beginningsMonday 22 July 2013My colleagues gave me a good luck card when I left The National Archives...Behind the scenesSweet, sweet musicTuesday 21 May 2013I’m in Gateshead and I can hear music. No, I haven’t gone doolally, though...Archives and archivistsTrainee Tuesday: the best of BorthwickTuesday 2 April 20132013 is an important year for my host organisation, the Borthwick Institute for Archives,...Behind the scenesTrainee Tuesday: Outside the ArchiveTuesday 26 March 2013Over the months I have thoroughly enjoyed reading my fellow-trainees’ accounts of some of...Behind the scenesIntroducing The Keeper’s GalleryWednesday 12 December 2012Those blog readers who’ve been to Kew recently will have noticed we’ve carried out...Archives and archivistsWhat I did on my holidays – or, the potential of museum archivesMonday 6 August 2012It seems appropriate for a holiday period to talk about a place I have...Behind the scenesThinking about the boxFriday 23 March 2012Think for a minute about your last visit to a museum. Now, can you...