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Revisiting the Visitor’s Book
By Clemency Hinton (@clemencyhinton) Have you ever left an online review after dining at a café or staying in a hotel? What about after a visiting a museum or a local heritage site? You probably left your comment for the benefit of future visitors or to get the attention of management, but that review may have…
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Review: The Museum of the American Revolution
By Evelyn Strope (@emstrope) Location: 3rd & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Independence National Historical Park Ticket Prices: $18 Student, $21 Adult Opening Hours: Mon–Sun, 10am–5pm www.amrevmuseum.org; @AmRevMuseum While undertaking archival research in Philadelphia this summer, I finally had the chance to visit the Museum of the American Revolution (MAR), situated at the heart of…
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Fashion Gallery as Archive: Researching Dress History in Museums
By Zara Kesterton (@ZaraKesterton) In recent years, it has become fashionable to talk of an ‘archival turn’ in history, in which the site of record-keeping has itself come under scrutiny.[1] At the same time, material history has risen to prominence as an intriguing counterpart or companion to the paper-trail left by written documents.[2] As someone…
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Art in the Time of Coronavirus
By Zara Kesterton (@ZaraKesterton) 15 March 2020: we were beginning to realise just how much of an impact the coronavirus pandemic would have on all our lives. One of my friends messaged a group chat, ‘Now that we aren’t allowed to touch anything ever again does it spell the end of material culture? Is the…
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Moscow’s Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy: A Soviet-era Exposition and the Russian State
By Liya Wizevich (@liyawizevich) In Soviet Union there was vast human and geographical diversity, leading the government to look for ways to not benefit from it by showcasing the social, economic and geographical differences. This national diversity was grandiosely displayed nowhere better than in Moscow’s Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, (VDNKh).[1]
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