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360VR Exhibitions

Virtual Reality (VR) in museums is the focus of a newly funded knowledge exchange project that brings together Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Art Collections, Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾'s Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and AI technology start-up , which was founded by Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ scientists.

Transnational Slade

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Art Collections is embedded in Transnational Slade research project with Paul Mellon Centre and features student work from a lockdown print collaboration between Slade and National College of the Arts (NCA), Lahore, Pakistan as part of Testing Ground exhibition.

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Art Collections is collaborating with Dr Elettra Carbone, School of European Languages and Cultures (SELCS). The collections feature in an online exhibition Nordic Fragments exploring British-Nordic connections, and her forthcoming British Representations of Modern Scandinavia: An object-based investigation (Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Press).

The Languages and Cultures Show and Tell

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Art Collections is at the heart of The Languages and Cultures Show and Tell, a self-directed online course made up of a series of short taster videos and related activities showcasing one or more aspects of some of the languages and cultures taught at the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾.

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ and Survey of London

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Art Collections is contributing to research underway by Dr Amy Spencer in the Survey of London, based at the Bartlett School of Architecture, towards a monograph on Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾’s Bloomsbury campus set to be published to mark Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾’s bicentenary in 2026.

Collaboration between Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Digitisation Suite and Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Special Collections

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Special Collections has worked together with the Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Centre for Digital Humanities on several projects, testing new advanced imaging techniques on real historical objects and using imaging to answer questions posed by librarians and conservators in Special Collections.

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Special Collections is running a project that trains volunteers to search the catalogue for printed items relating to marginalised groups. Outputs have included articles on women book owners, women in the Italian book trade, and early modern women writers.

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Special Collections has organised events that virtually unite items from different collections, encouraging new research avenues and the exchange of curatorial expertise. In May 2021, an event we organised compared 17 copies of a 1481 edition of Dante's.

Automated Copyright and Due Diligence for Archive Collections

Funded by the TNA Archives Testbed Fund, this project is a collaboration between the Art Museum and Special Collections. It explores whether automated copyright permission systems being designed and trialled by the museum can be expanded to automate and streamline the due diligence process for third-party copyright in archive collections and manage the resulting documentation more effectively. The final report is currently being written and we are exploring future phases with Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Advanced Computing Research Centre.