2020

Never has collaboration been so important with regards to how we are working at MoDiP. During these extraordinary times, we have pulled together, reached out to our partner organisations and pushed and blended the boundaries of our roles for the better good of our students, schools, researchers and...

Board games are just the thing to stop us from getting bored during self-isolation. Here are some classics from the museum’s collections. This gaming piece ( AIBDC : 006889.1 ) offers 2 for 1: chess on one side, draughts on the other. Made 50 years ago using moulds from the 1850s, the material is...

We are pleased to announce that in our role as convener of the Plastics SSN (PSSN), and jointly with the Dress and Textiles Specialists (DATS), we have been successful with our grant application for MoDiP for £14,500 towards Art Fund’s ‘Network grants’ scheme. The project runs from May 2020 to April...

Monday 18th May 2020 is International Museum Day, an event that has been running since 1977 with the objective of raising awareness that museums are an important agency for cultural exchange. Last year 37,000 museums across the world participated in this celebration from 158 different countries and...

On receiving notice that the AUB campus would be closing from 5pm on Friday 20th March 2020, in line with the Government’s country-wide lockdown for COVID-19, the MoDiP team had only a few days to get the museum organised. We had just completed the installation of our latest exhibition, Being me...

With the lockdown taking hold and working from home, I am finding that snacking has become a real personal issue for me. I am up and down from my computer looking in the cupboard to see if there are any biscuits, of course there aren’t any because I have eaten them all. However, it has made me think...

MoDiP’s current exhibition, Being me: plastics and the body , contains one case focusing on shaping the body looking at some of the ways in which plastics have been used to change the appearance of the human form. As an example, we chose to feature the Wonderbra , an instantly recognisable and...

I go to car boot sales a lot - there are plenty in Cornwall in both the summer and the winter. I do see a lot of 'tat', but I try not to be too distracted or disheartened by it. Sometimes, however, I find something that is interesting. This I got for £1… It’s a paperknife, made out of horn in the...

These past 20 weeks of the student creative project with MoDiP has been a journey of exploration and transformation from museum artefact to finished fine art piece. I started my journey through proposing my idea of machine tufting. I had planned to take it in this direction from the very start...

My time making my project as MoDiP student creative has sadly come to an end, but It has been such an enjoyable and exciting experience. Over the course of my time as a MoDiP Student Creative my project has evolved and developed a lot. I was first drawn to the MoDiP Student Creative project due to...