Rebecca Mileham - Freelance Writer

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 soon got involved in exhibitions about everything from mobile-phone recycling to Charles Babbage's difference engines. 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

Writing the text for 1001 Inventions, an interactive exhibition about the influence of Muslim civilisation on modern life. The Observer review says: 'wonderful... filled with surprises. It is easy on the eye but is still dense with information'.

• 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 Transport Museum
• Writing complete storyline text for the highly-commended 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.