December 2025 Dear Members, We hope your festive season is off to a joyful start! Ours began in spectacular style with our Christmas event at the wonderfully atmospheric Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum on 1 December. The team there gave us an exceptionally warm welcome, and the house looked magical […]
Wellcome Collection.Addressing the Colonial Legacies of Wellcome’s Collection
Weapons originally belonging to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum laid out in the Duveen Gallery at the British Museum, 1955. Wellcome Collection
Dead things tucked in drawers … bring them out!
Maureen La Frenais responds to a workshop: Using Natural Science Collections to Challenge the Climate Emergency as part of the South West Fed’s 2020 conference. A great topic, enthralling and I learned so much from this first workshop. With four case studies, and five speakers in 20 minutes it was […]
The South West Fed is Changing
The South West Fed is changing and we want to let you know what this means for your membership. From November 2020 we are offering free membership for Students, Individuals, and Organisations.
How can we use collections to talk about the climate emergency?
We invited Katie Longley, a student of Bath Spa University, to write a blog post based on what she learnt from the our recent conference.
Bristol Mingle Spotlight Talk – The Bristol Black History Project
Our first online Spotlight Talk focused on the Bristol Black History project.