Oceania – at the Royal Academy of Art, London 29 September – 10 December 2018 The Royal Albert Memorial Museum is very fortunate to loan a very rare Pacific costume to the Oceania exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in London later this year. Oceania marks 250 years since Captain Cook’s […]
Pacific Category
Masks and masking
Masks and masking by volunteer Rebecca Vicary-Smith Masks assume a variety of roles and they are present in every society in one form or another. Masks are worn primarily as part of a costume or they can be used as a method of defence. The primary purpose of the masking tradition is to hide the wearer’s […]
Project partners: the benefits
Project partners: what are the benefits Last week, as part of the Discovering Worlds project I visited the Sainsbury Research Unit (SRU) at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. This brief sabbatical had four aims; To meet up with current project partners to discuss updates on collection information. To use the research library so that I can start […]
50 shades of brown
50 shades of brown Over the last year we have seen a number of team mates help to develop the Discovering Worlds project. This includes a wide variety of essential tasks including the processing of object information of the collection database, taking measurements of objects and photography. The example on the left hand side shows former team mate […]
New display work
The display cases that will show objects from the island cultures of the Pacific Ocean (a vast region we call Oceania) are about to be transformed. We have already taken down the objects from this part of the gallery so these cases look empty. All of the objects have been taken down and were safely removed to the on-site […]