Research on Display
Collaboration between Academics and Museums on Exhibitions
Research by Laura Humphries
Research on Display is a guide for academics about working on collaborative exhibitions. It was developed by Laura Humphries in 2014, from the AHRC-funded ‘Research on Display’ workshops at the Geffrye Museum of the Home and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
The events saw a number of speakers from the museum and academic worlds give valuable guidance on collaborative exhibitions, drawn from a wide variety of experience. Both workshops were fully-booked, with 75 attendees from a range of science and humanities subjects, with many interesting questions and opinions. This guide is designed to make available the topics discussed over the two days, and to make the process of collaborative exhibition making more accessible to academics with no museum background. It also includes discussion of key Research-Collections collaborations for the Society, including Hidden Histories of Exploration.