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MEG Activities

MEG functions as a lively, informal group of peers who hope to learn from each other’s experiences.

Members play an important role in the development of this exciting area of museum research and practice, and members of the committee are always keen to receive suggestions for new activities from members.

At present, the main activities of MEG include:

  • Publishing the Journal of Museum Ethnography, a prestigious annual journal.
  • Organising an annual spring conference, normally hosted by a member institution.
  • Coordinating in person events. These include museum visits and new exhibitions, normally with talks or tours by their curators and study days on particular topics.
  • A recently established online Keeping Connected series – a safe space to share best practice about key challengers facing the sector.
  • Circulating a regular newsletter to members by email
  • Maintaining the MEG website
  • Maintaining the Repatriation Resource.

MEG keeps in touch with its members through the e-newsletter, but Blog postings appear more regularly, and notifications of these are circulated through Twitter and Facebook.

 

 

Latest Blog Posts

  •  The prospect of writing a summary report of this year’s MEG conference is, quite frankly, pretty daunting. The range of papers, the complexity of ideas, the combined wealth of knowledge and experience shared both in the lecture hall and so freely over lunch, pages of notes to try and make sense of … So, what follows is a personal, but I hope adequate, overview of some themes, comments and...

  •   MEG Web Officer Museum Ethnographers Group are a UK-based, but international collective, whose members include: Museum professionals, academics, researchers & students, artists, activists & enthusiasts Originally established in 1975, MEG has a long history of bringing individuals, institutions and museum collections together to build knowledge and understanding. MEG believes that our museums have an important role to play in building understanding, foregrounding respect, and caring for each other. However, this is predicated on institutional and practical changes that we...

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