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New Committee Members

At the AGM, held at the conference in Oxford on 11th April, a number of new committee members were elected.

Alison Petch was elected as the new President of MEG.

Fiona Kerlogue of the Horniman Museum, Helen Mears from Brighton, Alison Clark from the British Museum were all elected as new committee members.

Claire Warrior from the National Maritime Museum was elected as a committee member having previously been a co-opted member.

Emma Martin, former president, Alison Brown and Tony Eccles have left the committee....

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About MEG...

The Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG), formed in 1976, is committed to the following aims -

To encourage good practice in curatorship of all ethnographic collections in the United Kingdom.
To encourage and disseminate research on ethnographic collections in the UK.
To promote the exchange of information and resources, nationally, internationally and locally.
To maintain the profile of ethnography with respect to other groups of museum professionals and in relation to other museum bodies more broadly, such as the Museums Association and MLA.
To educate the public through the use of ethnographic collections and thereby to foster an awareness of their educational value.

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