Jenny Durrant
banner
durrantjenny.bsky.social
Jenny Durrant
@durrantjenny.bsky.social
Museums, Collections, Ethics
Consultant, Writer, Researcher, Practitioner

Freelance and Jane Austen's House

Own views (which may also be about cats, church, or cake!)

www.jennydurrant.co.uk
Pinned
This quote popped into my feed in a different context, but is so relevant to my work about museum disposal. In my final book edits today, I've focussed on future timelines and possibilities for how museum practice could be. Don't let fear win; be hopeful. An important message beyond museum work.
Reposted by Jenny Durrant
Huge congratulations to @durrantjenny.bsky.social on the publication of her new book 'Deaccessioning Museum Objects. Transparency and Ethics in Disposal Practice'. I am so excited to read it!
www.routledge.com/Deaccessioni...
Deaccessioning Museum Objects: Transparency and Ethics in Disposal Practice
Deaccessioning Museum Objects is an innovative exploration of museum collections management practice and the ethical complexities of object disposal within the contemporary social context. Disposal of...
www.routledge.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
My book manuscript is accepted for publication without changes. Hooray!

#museums #disposal #ethics #transparency
a cartoon of snoopy , lucy , and linus saying hooray ! yippy !
ALT: a cartoon of snoopy , lucy , and linus saying hooray ! yippy !
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:07 PM
One of my research interests is museum loss and letting go.

But updating our museum snatch / salvage list has tested my personal limits today. It's not a question of what to save, but what to let go? Such hard decisions.
December 2, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Is sharing professional excitement a thing on this platform? If so...

I have submitted my book manuscript to the publisher!

Museums, disposal/ deaccessioning, transparency, ethics... all hot topics at the mo.

Keeping my fingers crossed that they like it 🤞
a woman in a red sweater is standing next to a man and making a funny face .
ALT: a woman in a red sweater is standing next to a man and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2024 at 11:07 AM
This quote popped into my feed in a different context, but is so relevant to my work about museum disposal. In my final book edits today, I've focussed on future timelines and possibilities for how museum practice could be. Don't let fear win; be hopeful. An important message beyond museum work.
November 20, 2024 at 4:52 PM