Collections
We do collections advice. Whether it’s public, private, independent or technical advice, we can help.
Digital
Curate images, sound, and 3D assets. We can help you get it online or on to devices, and help study it too.
Exhibitions & Content
Engaging content from our unique perspective, wherever you need it. From museums to hotels to airports to offices.
Facilitation
We help organisations and networks to develop and change. Diversity, inclusion, leadership work? That too.
Research & Analysis
Research is our passion. Historical, museological, scientific, technological; it’s in our bones.
Training & Courses
We excel in creating, developing, and delivering place-based and online training and courses.
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Kathleen Lawther on the critical importance of museum documentation
Each undocumented, or poorly documented, object is a missed opportunity for the museum to do all of the things they are celebrated for: engaging people, connecting people, sharing stories. Kathleen Lawther, Curator, April 2021. Continuing our interviews with curator, in our latest we speak with Kathleen Lawther. Kathleen is a freelance curator who is obsessed with what…
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Psychology of curating with colour
In curating, museum, and gallery work, we increasingly talk about sensory and immersive experiences, but what does this mean in practice? Back in March 2019 I enrolled and completed a short introductory course called Introduction to Psychology: Sensation and Perception on FutureLearn. It was supported by mentors and provided by Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. My…
Rock art – digital enhancement services
We have just completed a new page summarising one of our many niche services – digital enhancement of rock art. In the past, making rock art panels clearer to study was often an invasive, destructive, and often messy activity. Chalk, paper rubbings, torchlight, mirrors, and even plaster or latex casts have all been used. The…
Colouring the past – is it authentic?
In the last few years (2018-2021) I have begun to notice more and more colourised back and white photographs and videos. From the full works by big names like director Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old where grainy First World War footage was upscaled to 4K resolution, colorised, ‘restored’ (using Computer Generated Imagery, or…
Our Philosophy
Curating narrows the gap between creating knowledge and communication. Our philosophy is inspired by the concept of creating collections of things. The act of collecting is about constructing knowledge (information and emotional) through explanation and stories.
Possessing that knowledge bestows a person power. It is the curator’s purpose to share that knowledge (and its power) as widely and equitably as possible through brilliant communication and interpretation.
Read more about our philosophy on curating.
What we provide
Course development
Digital and place-based course development for colleges, adult education, universities, individual organisations and groups. We have developed and are delivering a major work-based curatorial training and museum awareness course for Cornish museums called Citizen Curators on behalf of Cornwall Museums Partnership, supported by the Museums Association Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund.
Research projects
We help organisations analyse information and explore new subjects. Recently we have helped Historic England to update a guide to good practice and communicate shipwrecks to non-divers through 3D imaging on Sketchfab. Our research into medieval inscriptions has helped archaeologists at Tintagel to read words hidden for a thousand years.
Organisational help
Support for undertaking organisational change, leadership development and diversity and inclusion work. Our Director is an Accredited member of the Association of Facilitators and we have led facilitation events for the National Trust, Arts Council England and contributed insights to the Cultural Governance Alliance led by the Clore Leadership Programme.
Good curating
Curate it all…
…food, clothes, garden, music, colours, lights, writing, your room.
Good curating gives meaning to the choices you make when you choose, select and arrange.
It determines the ideas, people and stories you really care about.
Study it
Question it
Curate it.
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