Journal

Fri 07 Jul 2023 Opinion

30 years of exhibitionism #2 – Qingming Scroll, Hong Kong Wetland Park

I have been an Interpretive Planner for museums around the world for over 30 years. When I started in 1992, the term was rarely used. Family and friends still ask: “What is it exactly that you do?” So I thought I would look back over my 30 years in museums, zoos, aquaria and heritage sites to pick out some of the favourite exhibits that I have worked on as a way of explaining the process of interpretive planning and what it is. Here we look at the Qingming Scroll exhibit in the Hong Kong Wetland Park.
Tue 20 Jun 2023 Opinion

30 years of exhibitionism #1 – Tai Kwun prison cell

I have been an Interpretive Planner for museums around the world for over 30 years. When I started in 1992, the term was rarely used. Family and friends still ask: “What is it exactly that you do?” So I thought I would look back over my 30 years in museums, zoos, aquaria and heritage sites to pick out some of the favourite exhibits that I have worked on as a way of explaining the process of interpretive planning and what it is. Here we look at an exhibit in a Tai Kwun prison cell.
Sat 11 Mar 2023 Company News

New museums and heritage tourism book

A new museums and heritage tourism book by Winkle-picker Managing Director Chris White will be published by Routledge in April 2023. Entitled Museums and heritage tourism: theory, practice and people, it examines the symbiotic relationship between museums, heritage attractions and tourism, using a range of international case studies.

Tue 13 Jul 2021 Opinion

Objectivity #1: Napoleon and Wellington’s bicornes

Every now and then, our Objectivity series will showcase an object or objects that provide springboards into unexpected stories, as the best museum objects do. 

Display case in the ‘Napoleon – Wellington, Destins croisés’ exhibition, March-July 2015, Musée Wellington, Belgium

 

They would be spinning in their graves if they knew, but Napoleon and Wellington’s bicornes (two-cornered hats) are permanently sitting in the same glass case in a Bayonne museum. They might not have minded so much that their distinctive head gear (albeit it different editions) were temporarily brought together for an exhibition at the Musée Wellington in 2015 (see image above). But forever?