OUHN Virtual Tea Recap: Professor Dan Hicks discussing #MuseumsUnlocked

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On day 79 of the 100 days twitter initiative #MuseumsUnlocked Dan Hicks joined us for our weekly Oxford Heritage Network virtual tea, an inspiring talk and Q&A with more than 50 participants. The twitter initiative is a response to being unable to “go” to museums due to the lockdown rules in the UK. Instead each day features a different theme through the kaleidoscopic lense of places, landscapes, actions, people and media & materials; comprehensified and contextualised through the active twitter community participation. It provides a new democratic approach to memory during this current situation.

Questions asked ranged across topics including:

  • How many people have engaged with the twitter initiative, is twitter the best platform, and what has influenced whether museums have got involved?
  • Did some themes give richer/ different interactions than others?
  • What does this initiative mean for wider curatorial practice and longer term museum engagement activities?
  • How could this sort of initiative be continued when lockdown ends and museums and sites are open once more?

There are still 21 days to go for #MuseunsUnlocked.  Why not join this ‘new visual moment’ before the project itself will become a digital heritage object of yet unknown whereabouts?