Museum Interpretation
With twenty years’ experience in museums, beginning at the Science Museum in London, I now work with the teams around the world on interpretation and text-writing.
Recent projects include:
I worked with English Heritage on the re-interpretation of Whitby Abbey
- Contributing audio scripts, museum text and trail editing for English Heritage at Whitby Abbey
- Writing text for First Animals, and Bacterial World, the latest exhibitions in Oxford University Museum of Natural History’s contemporary science series
- Working with the National Trust team at Quarry Bank to write new gallery text based on their fantastic archives
- Writing text for a major National History Museum project: the new Whales: Beneath the Surface gallery
- …and also for the Natural History Museum’s touring Treasures show launched in Tokyo and until recently at the ArtScience Museum, Singapore
- Writing the exhibition text for The Play’s the Thing, a permanent exhibition created by the Royal Shakespeare Company and reviewed here by the Telegraph
- Researching content and writing text for the Brain Diaries exhibition at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, about which a reviewer in The Lancet wrote “Brain Diaries offers an excellent introduction to the development of the healthy brain”
- Creating a tone guide and writing text for the new Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Centre (SAASCC) in Kuwait, with Jasper Jacobs Associates
- Contributing text strategy and text-writing to the new Postal Museum and Mail Rail, now open in London, designed by Haley Sharpe. Read my blog post about the text-writing and stories
- Working with KCA London to edit text throughout the new Esplora Science Centre, which opened in Malta in 2016
- Developing content and writing the text for Oxford University Museum of Natural History‘s exhibition Handwritten in Stone, about William Smith who made Britain’s first geological map
William Smith’s 200 year-old map
- Writing the text for 1001 Inventions, an interactive exhibition about the influence of Muslim civilisation on modern life. The Observer review says: ‘wonderful… filled with surprises. It is easy on the eye but is still dense with information’. This exhibition is now on tour around the world after winning a Museums and Heritage Show award for best touring exhibition
- Developing content and text for Brent’s new museum, working with Neill Richardson and Julie Nelson Rhodes
- Writing and editing the text for the new Mildenhall Museum, Suffolk, working with designers Neill Richardson and Matt Bigg
- Working with May Redfern and the team at Barnsley Museum on their exhibition Cole Not Dole: Women Against Pit Closures
- Editing text and including young people’s quotes in the Moving Stories exhibition at the National Media Museum
Kids’ quotes in Moving Stories at the National Media Museum