S13E03: Conflict and Collections

We’re joined by curator Karen Logan as we talk about working with collections that stir up emotions and recent memories: from The Troubles in Northern Ireland to Brexit and activism. Also tune in for Kloe’s thoughts and feelings on human remains and other displays as she visited Egypt in February. 04:00 How did this episode come about? 08:26 What are The Troubles? 15:40 What to include 18:10 Contemporary collecting 23:40 Including people is powerful 26:11 Audience differences 27:50 Collecting Brexit 32:24 Responding to challenges 39:49 Kloe’s visit to NMEC 47:20 Patreon appeal and shout out Show Notes: - National Museums NI: https://www.nationalmuseumsni.org/ - The Troubles according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles - Collecting The Troubles and Beyond: https://www.nationalmuseumsni.org/resources/collecting-troubles-and-beyond - Collecting Cultures by NHLF: https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/about/insight/evaluation/collecting-cultures-evaluation - PHM collecting: https://phm.org.uk/collections/ - James Ellis (actor): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ellis_(actor) - Nothing About Us Without Us exhibition: https://phm.org.uk/exhibitions/nothing-about-us-without-us/ - National Museum of Egyptian Civilization: https://nmec.gov.eg/ Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Karen Logan. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2023.