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British Interactive Group
BIG is an organisation for individuals involved in all aspects of hands-on exhibitions and activities.
It is not only for people running science centres, but for artists, archaeologists, educators, students, front of house staff, evaluators and anyone involved in hands-on communication whatever their field.
BIG aims to improve understanding of the potential of hands-on and the role it can play in may contexts, to encourage high professional standards and act as a voice for all people working with hands-on.
E-mail: membership@big.uk.com
Website: www.big.uk.com/
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Collections Link
Collections Link is a collaboration of more than 20 national professional groups, bodies and associations who are responsible for providing advice and support to museums, archives, libraries and other collections-holding organisations.
The aim of the service is to provide a single point of access to best practice in the care and management of collections.
Website: www.collectionslink.org.uk
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Dress and Textile Specialists (DATS)
DATS aim to provide links and mutual support for professionals in the United Kingdom and Ireland working with specialist collections of fashion, dress and textiles and with wider museum collections that include these materials . They work to encourage sharing and exchanging knowledge, information, skills and resources, and promote best practice in curatorship within dress and textile collections.
DATS produce a newsletter and hold an annual conference on topics relevant to the conservation, exhibition and documentation of costumes and textiles.
For membership details contact the Membership Secretary:
Grace Evans
Keeper of Costume
Chertsey Museum
The Cedars
33 Windsor Street
Chertsey
Surrey
KT16 8AT
E-mail: grace.evans@runnymede.gov.uk
Website: www.dressandtextilespecialists.org.uk
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Museum Ethnographers Group
MEG was formed to encourage good practice in curatorship of all UK ethnographic collections, encouraging and disseminating research on ethnographic collections, promoting the exchange of information and resources, nationally, internationally and locally.
The group aims to maintain the profile of ethnography with respect to other groups of museum professionals and in relation to other museum bodies more broadly, such as the Museums Association and MLA. It also aims to educate the public through the use of ethnographic collections and thereby to foster an awareness of their educational value.
E-mail: members@museumethnographersgroup.org.uk
Website: www.museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/
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Oral History Society
Oral History records the living memories and feelings of all kinds of people, many otherwise hidden from history, and creates a more vivid picture of our past.
Rob Perks
Secretary
Oral History Society
c/o The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
For information and contact addresses:
E-mail: rob.perks@bl.uk
Website: www.ohs.org.uk/
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The Plastics Historical Society
For discovering everything you have ever wanted to know about the history of plastics from 1284 to the present day.
Ideal for designers, collectors, curators, conservators and students of our industrial and cultural plastics heritage.
E-mail: general@plastiquarian.com
Website: www.plastiquarian.com
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Society for Folk Life Studies
The interdisciplinary study of regional cultures and traditions is the key aim of the Society for Folk Life Studies.
The Society is the only organisation in Britain that brings together curators, historians, geographers, musicologists, linguists and many other people to explore the regional identity of the British Isles and beyond.
For membership enquiries, contact:
Seb Littlewood
Beamish Open Air Museum
Beamish
Co. Durham
DH9 0RG
E-mail: seblittlewood@beamish.org.uk
Website: www.folklifestudies.org.uk
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