![]() In fact, museums have never been neutral in their collecting choices and decision making, and this is also their power: to define our shared memory bringing archival knowledge to life and shaping curatorial practices. Of course, even for the British Museum, which held a huge and extremely diverse collection, it is a ‘mission impossible’ to tell a world history through the narrative behind material culture. With this sentence, Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum between 20, introduced the ambitious scope of his book A History of the World in 100 objects, following the success of the BBC Radio 4 programme. “Telling history through things is what museums are for”. I will share brief stories of selected objects, trying to cover the entire world represented in the collection equally, and to give new insights about my ongoing PhD research at the University of Leicester and Leicester Museum & Art Gallery. You can read object-focused news stories about a global and colonial collection kept in the Museum’s storage. Global Leicester: the Dryad Craftwork Collection at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery This is an introduction to an on-going blog project.
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