Museum Interpretation
With ten years' experience in museums, I now work with teams all over the country on interpretation projects and text-writing. I joined the Science Museum while finishing off my masters (I was also a jobbing musician in the V&A’s café at the time, but that’s another story). Although I started as an Explainer in the interactive galleries, I found I enjoyed writing words that worked alongside objects, pictures, interactives and multimedia to create exhibitions, tackling topics from the male pill to Charles Babbage’s Difference Engines, robotic submarines and mobile-phone recycling. In a review of a gallery in which I led the interpretation, Museums Journal wrote:
"The exhibition succeeds brilliantly in its use of text, pitched beautifully in terms of quantity and content."
As well as contributing to the museums press, my recent freelance projects include
- Leading the interpretation for a major new gallery at the Black Country Museum
- Providing editorial consultancy and editing for the Science Museum's new Future Foods exhibition.
- Editing text for the revamped contemporary galleries at London’s Transport Museum
- Writing complete storyline text for the new Southwold Museum, Suffolk
- Providing creative consultancy and writing under-sevens’ label text for the new Launchpad gallery at the Science Museum
- Writing interpretive on-screen text for Belfast Exposed photography gallery
- Rewriting label text for the flagship gallery Making the Modern World at the Science Museum
- Acting as interpretation consultant to Objectives Museum Design for projects including Woburn Heritage Centre and St John’s House Museum, Warwick.
- Researching factual content on which Jon Burgerman based his artwork for the Game On exhibition in London
I am a member of the Museums Association and the Group for Education in Museums.
