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The Highwayman in the Front Room
Find out what happened when Dick Turpin galloped into Penge...
Object Focus: Publicity, Packaging and Postcards
In early 2013 we began a documentation and conservation project focusing on a part of MoDA’s collection made up of little bits of detail. The Charles Hasler Collection contains (amongst other things) scraps of wine labels, books with missing pages, old restaurant menus and envelopes. This reference material from the Charles Hasler collection is both […]
Felicity Ford: Sonic Wallpapers
The Sonic Wallpapers project asked “What does this wallpaper sound like to you?” Sound artist Felicity Ford brought a new auditory approach to MoDA’s wallpaper collection, asking what it would be like if we decorated our homes with sounds. The result was a series of audio pieces to accompany a number of MoDA’s wallpapers, each […]
Object Focus: ‘My Home’ magazine
Mondays can be tough for some, so we thought we’d help ease you into the week by introducing the newest addition to MoDA’s collection: A magazine series called My Home which makes for a fantastic and distractingly good read. My Home is a typical woman’s consumer magazine of the interwar period with articles on cooking, household management, beauty, […]