In Projects Q&A: How did you become a curator? I often receive emails from students and early career scholars in the UK and abroad who are thinking of entering the museum sector in… Continue Reading →
In Hotung Gallery/ Projects Moved, blown up, restored: the journey of an Asokan Inscription at the British Museum One of the most important objects in the South Asia collections at the British Museum is also one of the most unassuming. It is… Continue Reading →
In Hotung Gallery The Bimaran Casket: Representing the Buddha in Human Form The Bimaran Casket is a small, gold reliquary which bears the earliest datable representation of the Buddha in human form. Earlier portrays of the… Continue Reading →
In Hotung Gallery/ Projects How to recreate a Gandhara stupa at the British Museum The first object you encounter when approach the Gandhara section of the Hotung Gallery is a large, beautifully carved preaching Buddha sculpture from Jamalgarhi,… Continue Reading →
In Hotung Gallery/ Projects Curating the Life of the Buddha at the British Museum The refurbishment of the Sir Joseph E. Hotung Gallery for China and South Asia was an opportunity to reassess the full scope of the… Continue Reading →
In Hotung Gallery/ Projects Behind the Scenes at the British Museum: Indo-Roman trade in the Hotung Gallery The previous incarnation of the South Asia section of the Sir Joseph E Hotung Gallery for China and South Asia was broadly thematic in… Continue Reading →
In Asian Ethnographic Collections/ Projects From Siberia to London: the Sakha Collections at the British Museum The British Museum Siberian collections are substantial - numbering some 1400 objects – and they also range widely in terms of material, type, and… Continue Reading →
In Col. Colin Mackenzie, 1st Surveyor General of India/ Projects/ Travels/ Travels & Reviews Journey to the Western Isles We covered 1371 miles during our journey to the Western Isles and as we left the plains of England and passed through the Lake… Continue Reading →
In Col. Colin Mackenzie, 1st Surveyor General of India/ Exhibition Photo Galleries/ Projects/ Reviews/ Travels/ Travels & Reviews Collector Extraordinaire Exhibition: treasures from India in Scotland Opening night! After a slightly frantic start deciding what to wear to an event I had been looking forward to for so long, I… Continue Reading →
In Col. Colin Mackenzie, 1st Surveyor General of India/ Projects Collector Extraordinaire: selecting objects to reunite a collection Colin Mackenzie (1754-1821) was born in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis but spent most of his life in India working for the East… Continue Reading →
