The Multi-Sensory Memories project was to collect memories and ideas to tell the story of Coventry Transport Museum’s commercial collection. That included: post vans, tractors, buses… and a 1960s Daimler hearse.
The “We Love Coventry” exhibition is all about Coventry as a city today, and what it means to the people who live and work here. Who better to tell that story, than Coventry people themselves? The concept was partly inspired by the Museum week of the World101x course (University of Queensland), and features objects and photos loaned by local people. This […]Read Post ›
Redesigning public spaces provides an ideal opportunity to not only improve the look of the space, but also to make it more user-friendly. How do we know what “user-friendly” means? Well, the best way to get the full picture is to ask the users themselves: the public. The idea of the public being involved in designing public spaces is […]Read Post ›
In December 2014, I headed over to the Rugby Art Gallery and Museum to see “It’s a wrap: Japanese furoshiki past and present“, a colourful history of Japanese wrapping cloths. The exhibition covered the traditional furoshiki, through to modern-day versions with popular manga characters. There was even a section that showed how furoshiki are being embraced […]Read Post ›
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