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Our first 2021 blog from the series 'The Joy Of What We Do', returns to my early career as an assistant curator at the British Museum. I have always been interested in the study of mankind's history and legacy, since it provides important evidence and connections.

Today’s blog from the series The Joy Of What We Do explores another aspect of working in a patron’s family home.

Today, in our first November The Joy of What we Do blog we are reflecting on the British Armistice flag.

Today, we are focusing on the preparation of new permanent exhibition displays in the museum’s environment.

Following on from our Power of Art blog, where we presented a monumental sculpture by Elisa Bracher, it raises the question of how large scale and heavy sculptures are moved and installed safely.

Despite C-19 auctions houses continued to conduct live auctions albeit without an audience. Making use of the opportunity to develop their technology, many more auctions are now held on online.

Three years ago, I discussed with the re-owned German painter Peter Zimmermann, a career spanning over forty years and his exhibition ‘Colourscape’ at the Germany Embassy London.

A few years ago, we worked at a private residence before the building underwent major renovation work. Almost three hundred artworks had to be de-installed, condition checked and transferred into temporary storage for later reinstatement.

Today our blog ‘The Joy Of What We Do’ features the project ‘Another Day Lost: 1,579 And Counting…’ by the Syrian-born, UK-based artist Issam Kourbaj, part of Shubbak Festival in 2015: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture.

The first September blog of our series ‘The Joy Of What We Do’ presents an article I have written about the Thomas Struth retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. I first met Mr Struth a few years ago when I assisted him with a potential project in London.

Ways of Seeing, Waltham Forest Council, London's First Borough of Culture in 2019.

The desire to pursue a career in the artworld is the ambition of many individuals. Skills, vocational training and relevant qualifications are required to secure employment and to further the careers of talented people.

Working with an artist on a site-specific commission is a vastly different project compared with producing an exhibition. In our weekly blog we focus our attention on this complex process. The image presents the Technological University Dublin’s new city campus in Grangegorman, Dublin 7, the future home of Alexandra Carr’s new commission Solaris Nexum.

This week's post The Joy Of What We Do, features an image taken whilst conduction condition checking a number of drawings made by a high-profile international artist. The artworks belonged to a private collector who had agreed that they can join a touring exhibition in the USA.

This week post The Joy Of What We Do, presents an object from the Science Museum, London. The chair looks like an unassuming piece of domestic furniture and is part of the museum’s space technology collection.

Our second new weekly post focuses on projects we deliver at our boutique consultancy. This week post The Joy Of What We Do, presents the evaluation of two archive donations to a national institution in Australia.

Our second new weekly post focuses on projects we deliver at our boutique consultancy. We work with international collectors, museums, artists, galleries and universities on a wide range of projects. Sharing some of our experiences provides an insight into the projects.