Annette Day

Fellow’s Profile

Annette Day

Fellow’s Profile

Annette Day

Collecting and displaying the 20th century in museums

Fellowship

Themes

Countries

Fellowship year

2002

Locality

London

Biography

I am Head of Content Delivery at the Museum of London. My Fellowship in 2002 focused on how museums in Poland were collecting and displaying 20th-century history. At the time I was Senior Curator of Oral History and Contemporary Collecting and I was particularly interested in the relationship between public and personal memory. I visited museums in Poland that were reconsidering how they presented more recent history.

After completing my Fellowship, I curated a major collaborative exhibition Belonging: Voices of London's Refugees at the Museum of London, before moving on to become Head of Programmes, Head of Exhibitions and Displays, and now Head of Content Delivery. I am currently working on a project to move the museum, which involves rethinking how we represent London's past and present for 21st-century audiences.

Although it was 20 years ago now, I still draw on the insights I gained through my Fellowship and remember it as a hugely positive experience, both professionally and personally.

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