Curator Without Museum

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After a few years as a Curator Without a Museum (a bit like a Minister Without Portfolio) I'm delighted to be back a Curator Within a Museum.

Photo shows a hand holding a copy of Peter Ackroyd's Turner biography.
Photo shows a book open in the foreground. A poem called Find A Good Light is on the open page. In the background are a pair of legs in a hammock, a wall of a house, blue skies and a ray of sunlight cutting across the top right corner.
Photo shows white marble carved with small figures in classical draped outfits, most missing their heads. In the right side is the figure of a man in robes, again without his head. Above him is etched a circle with two line across the middle and a small circle in the top half. It looks like the death star.
Photo in daytime framed by a willow tree, with caramel coloured tower and Abbey in the background, complete with stained glass windows. The building on the left has a white sign stating "Museum" hanging above the door.
Photo of a white walled art gallery. In the foreground is a white plinth with an enormous sculpture in the shape of a silver inflatable rabbit balloon. There are museum visitors around the room.
Photo of inside a glass case. There is a clear perspex stand with 4 layers, each holding a dozen colourfully de orate eggs. In the background can be seen a black and white chequered floor and wooden panelling on the wall.
Image shows black and white photo of the hall in the Natural Histiry Museum. All high ceilings, pillars, arches and windows. Lots of men in black tail coats are standing around a cast of a diplodocus skeketon. One man is standing on the far side of the dinosaur model plinth to address the crowd.
Photo shows green expanse with blue skies in the background. In the middle ground is a big tree. In the foreground is an easel with a blackboard covered in pegs. There are 6 replica art works (including Van Gogh's starry night and sunflowers and a Monet's lillies) hanging on the pegs.
Images shows Mary Beard in a teal trench coat with her hands on her hips, standing in front of the Pathenon. The text states "the secret histories of ancient Rome with Mary Beard".
Photo out a train window of a red brick wall, house roofs and blue sky.
Photo of woman with short dark hair and glasses in green and orange jumpsuit. She stands at the bottom of a set of stairs, beside a cardboard cutout of Hugh Bonneville. They are having a selfie!
Image shows a cartoon with a grey castle in the background. 3 men in the parapets are shouting down: "boom! Boom!", "bang!!" And "pow, pow, pow!". Two soldiers in the foreground discuss "sir, we have reason to believe that our adversaries actually have no weapons whatsoever". The title at the bottom in yellow states: "the fall of the onomatopoeia empire".
Photo of a museum case. There is a label at the base and a photo of the artefact in its original placement. Above is the fake bit of rock art with a figure pushing a shopping trolley.
Photo of 3 small damaged statues on a pale blue museum shelf. The one in the middle is beige in colour, has an obvious narrow waist and wise hips and two raised outstretched arms. The left arm is broken at the shoulder and the right arm broken at the wrist. The figure doesn't have a head. Covering the body are lines, zigzags, bands and shapes.
Photo shows wooden beams with two black and white cats peaking through them. Behind the beams can be seen blue skies and red brick walls.
Photo of woman with short hair in a red dress holding a copy of The Power. The dress is covered in white lightning bolts. It matches the cover of the book, which is also red and white with lightning bolts. There is also a woman with short hair in the middle of the illustration.
Photo of flint-covered, three storey building, with lights making the windows glow and the black night sky behind. The front door is dark blue.
Photo of a Roman mosaic. The background is beige, there's a tree on the left with a few orange leaves. In the centre is a creature that looks like a cat's head, with pointy ears; a horse's body/legs and a manic toothy grin under a massive round nose. The cat/wolf is grey with two small orange figures with their bavk to the viewer crouching beneath her. There are diamond shapes in the border around the picture.
Photo of the side of a office block. Edged in bright green and covering at least 3 floors, there's a massive black and white photo of Salvadore Dali. His moustache has been twirled into upward peaks and there are cartoon eyes over his realy eyes (though you can still see his eyebrows)
Photo shows a female figure about the length of a hand lying on a perspex cube on a museum shelf. The Woman is lying on her front and her hair is tied up in a bun. She holds a kind of basket in her outstretched hands and has a lovely shapely bottom.
Photo of a corridor with dark maybe walls. There are lots of 60s and 70s vinyls framed on the wall and the Beatles quoted painted in white.
Photo shows a table covered in a black cloth and perspex stands. In the foreground is a clear case showing two bone combs nestled in white tissue inside plastic boxes, a copper needle and two coins. Black labels have white text explaining what the objects are.
Photo of a piece of cream stone with a bird shape in dark green. The bird silhouette has a beak shape on the head, a stubby tail and two legs. There is a black & white ruler marking cms on the left, whoch show the artefact is about 13cm long
Screenshot of BBC Sounds app showing a photo of Bill Nighy in glasses, a jacket and tie. The text states "A Charles Paris Mystery. Charles Paris: Situation Tragedy. 28 mins. Available for 20 days. Released on 27 Jan 2025"
A fcbk post from 28th July 2012 which says "tempted to make the Pearly King". The photo has museum interpretation in green saying "Southwark through a lens" and a cutout Pearly King Moveable figure to make.
Screenshot of a tweet from 2019 for the #MuseumObjectChallenge. There is an image of the two headed turquoise snake or twin serpent.
Screenshot of Lulu Guiness website showing a small handbag in the shape of a fairy tale castle, with 2 turrets, a gate, ivy and a long yellow plait coming out of a window. The text states "silver castle collectible clutch bag"
Photo of blue skies and wispy white clouds with a red kite soaring
"God has given women such beautiful minds to apply themselves if they want to, in any of the fields where glorious and excellent men are active" photo of quote and book by Christine de Piraz