In this post we reflect on what motivates our shared interest in the emotionally laden elements of museum work – where did the emotion come from? Jennie’s arrival It was the emotion that got me in the end. More specifically, the acute feelings I experienced when working as a curator at a regional museum. As
We were pleased to take part in the ‘Care-ful’ Museums Conference held at Nottingham Trent University on 29th June 2023. Our presentation: Taking care of the workers: understanding museum and heritage professionals’ emotionally laden work, was a brief summary of our thoughts so far. We considered how emotion work has featured in writing about the museum and related
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