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How do you feel when you step into a museum? It’s rarely a simple answer.  Through ‘The Emotional Museum’, a team of University of Glasgow researchers untangle the complex and often overlooked feelings evoked by collections and the spaces that hold them.  Moving beyond the labels and the glass cases, we ask: what do these objects really do to us?  From joy to exhaustion and from anger to ambivalen...

How do you feel when you step into a museum? It’s rarely a simple answer.  Through ‘The Emotional Museum’, a team of University of Glasgow researchers untangle the complex and often overlooked feelings evoked by collections and the spaces that hold them.  Moving beyond the labels and the glass cases, we ask: what do these objects really do to us?  From joy to exhaustion and from anger to ambivalen...

How do you feel when you step into a museum? It’s rarely a simple answer.  Through ‘The Emotional Museum’, a team of University of Glasgow researchers untangle the complex and often overlooked feelings evoked by collections and the spaces that hold them.  Moving beyond the labels and the glass cases, we ask: what do these objects really do to us?  From joy to exhaustion and from anger to ambivalen...

How do you feel when you step into a museum? It’s rarely a simple answer.  Through ‘The Emotional Museum’, a team of University of Glasgow researchers untangle the complex and often overlooked feelings evoked by collections and the spaces that hold them.  Moving beyond the labels and the glass cases, we ask: what do these objects really do to us?  From joy to exhaustion and from anger to ambivalen...

How do you feel when you step into a museum? It’s rarely a simple answer.  Through ‘The Emotional Museum’, a team of University of Glasgow researchers untangle the complex and often overlooked feelings evoked by collections and the spaces that hold them.  Moving beyond the labels and the glass cases, we ask: what do these objects really do to us?  From joy to exhaustion and from anger to ambivalen...

Museums are political places. ‘Curating Discomfort’ puts forward discomforting provocations and interventions to help us think critically about colonial systems, such as the British Empire.  Systems that used ideologies to justify the enslavement and colonisation of peoples and lands around the world.  Museums developed within this context, and they remain spaces that celebrate and memorialise col...

Museums are political places. ‘Curating Discomfort’ puts forward discomforting provocations and interventions to help us think critically about colonial systems, such as the British Empire.  Systems that used ideologies to justify the enslavement and colonisation of peoples and lands around the world.  Museums developed within this context, and they remain spaces that celebrate and memorialise col...

Museums are political places. ‘Curating Discomfort’ puts forward discomforting provocations and interventions to help us think critically about colonial systems, such as the British Empire.  Systems that used ideologies to justify the enslavement and colonisation of peoples and lands around the world.  Museums developed within this context, and they remain spaces that celebrate and memorialise col...

Museums are political places.  ‘Curating Discomfort’ puts forward discomforting provocations and interventions to help us think critically about colonial systems, such as the British Empire. Systems that used ideologies to justify the enslavement and colonisation of peoples and lands around the world. Museums developed within this context, and they remain spaces that celebrate and memorialise colo...