Category: EXHIBITIONS

The new Royal College of Surgeons Museum in Lincoln’s Inn tells the story of scientist and surgeon John Hunter, whose collection of human and animal anatomical specimens form the basis of the collection. Casson Mann have designed the new displays at the Hunterian Museum (as it is known). They have brought their customary deftness to…

I’ve been working over the last few months with archaeologist Dr Chris Ferguson to write the text for Ad Gefrin, a new museum and whisky distillery at the site of a once-lost Anglo-Saxon palace in Northumberland. A summer home to three consecutive kings, Ad Gefrin was where the Northumbrian Golden Age began, with a flowering…

What are the biggest forces shaping current exhibition-making? The question came up at a recent away day with the Oxford Museum of Natural History. The Museum is world famous for its many historic specimens and stories, from dinosaurs and dodo remains to Darwin. But in the last few years staff have been experimenting with a…