This is a guest post and interview by Ana Gomes. I have recently spoken to Farah Shahabuddin, one of the volunteers of Coventry Transport Museum. Farah, who is interested and passionate about museums, has been supporting The Herbert and Coventry Transport Museum in a variety of settings, from administration to education offices. Below are the excerpts from […]Read Post ›
An interview from Design Thinking for Museums.
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 ›
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 ›
