Blending artefacts and contemporary art, Hew Locke interrogates the archives and stores of the British Museum in order to ask timely and important questions about museums and their relationship to power, history-telling and colonialism. Hew Locke: what have we here? The Salterton Arts Review has been a little preoccupied in January, and so it was […]
This eclectic private collection hearkens back to the origins of museums. Yet the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities is not for the faint-hearted. The Viktor Wynd Museum Of Curiosities I have been looking forward for some time to visiting the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art and Natural History. At least since I did […]
A review of a visit to the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon. This very traditional national art museum in the European tradition nevertheless has some distinctive sights to see. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga Lisbon’s Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (National Museum of Ancient Art) feels like a slightly odd place. It is […]
A review of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) in Cambridge, including their exhibition [Re:] Entanglements: Colonial collections in decolonial times. A pleasant and forward-looking museum, perfect to get a flavour of Cambridge’s university museums. MAA Cambridge We are now most of the way through the Salterton Arts Review’s outing to Cambridgeshire. Today is […]
A review of a visit to the Horniman Museum, including their temporary exhibition An Ode to Afrosurrealism. In which I think the Horniman have done a pretty good job of modernising the ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’/ethnographic museum format. Tell Me About The Horniman Museum So the Horniman Museum is interesting in terms of London’s museum landscape. […]
