Blog post by Chiara Zuanni, postdoctoral researcher at the V&A. In one of our previous posts, Sandra introduced one of the papers we are working on which focuses on an interdisciplinary and transnational comparison in order to explore how museums collecting and displaying practices and international fairs contributed to the making of knowledge in the late … Continue reading Exploring possible futures at the 1876 Loan Collection
Tag: International exhibitions
Travelling objects and transnationalism
Blog post by Sandra Kemp, V&A project Principal Investigator. In a series of reviews of the 1878 Paris exhibition, John Lockwood Kipling, then curator of the Lahore Museum, compares French and British exhibition displays. He begins: Novelty of idea is claimed for this display, but it would be hard to find a notion about … Continue reading Travelling objects and transnationalism