BehindtheScenes Category
Towards a National Collection: Opening UK Heritage to the World
The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture is proud to be representing Middlesex University as one of the partners in a major national research project.
Student Conservator sheds new light on Silver Studio designs
Arantza Dobbels (MA Paper Conservation, UAL) used scientific analysis to help her conserve eight Silver Studio designs.
Art Nouveau Stencilled wallcoverings (2019)
Fifty six important stencilled textiles, grasspapers and wallcoverings from MoDA’s Silver Studio Collection are now available to students and researchers, following the completion of a major conservation project. We are grateful for the support of the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) who made this project possible. the problem The stencilled materials were originally stored roughly […]
MoDA – A Museum of the Digital Age
Digital is a hot topic in the cultural sector these days. MoDA's Collections Manager, Sian Woodward, looks at how digital tools and ways of working are helping MoDA to achieve strategic goals.
Loan: ‘Resist: be modern (again),’ John Hansard Gallery (2019)
Some of the items we lent to the Enid Marx exhibition at the House of Illustration last year are on the road again, this time to the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton. They will be featured as part of an exhibition called ‘Resist: be modern (again), curated by Alice Maude-Roxby of Middlesex University and Stefanie Seibold of the University of Art and Design in Linz, […]
(2019) Funded Conservation: Silver Studio Stencilled wallcoverings
This conservation project focused on original Art Nouveau stencilled wallcoverings on paper, grasspaper and textile. They form part of MoDA’s Silver Studio Collection. As far as we know, no other institution holds similar or related materials, and no other artist or designer experimented with these particular combinations. These stencilled materials were made in the 1890s. […]
Digital: Digital Platforms to Enable Learning – Figshare
How MoDA has been exploring the use of digital platforms like Figshare to open up learning processes
Rebekah Harbord: A work placement project
MA Conservation student Rebekah Harbord summarises her work on 1940s designs at MoDA
Loan: ‘Enid Marx: Print, Pattern and Popular Art’ at The House of Illustration (2018)
MoDA lends items to an exhibition at the House of Illustration in 2018 on textile designer, illustrator and printmaker Enid Marx (1902-1998).
Job Applications: Top Ten Tips!
We’ve developed these tips after reading literally hundreds of job applications over the years. This advice applies to getting a job here at MoDA, but it’s equally applicable to getting a job elsewhere. Most big employers have a standard process so if you understand the rules of the game it might make it easier to […]