1. Curating the Global City: Behind the Scenes at the Museum of London Ellie Milese.r.miles@rhul.ac.uk

2. Overview

3. Using Hetherington’s model of the museum: “an exhibitionary space in which heterogeneous effects and uncertainty are subject to controlling and ordering processes” Hetherington, 1999: 52 ‘From Blindness to blindness: museums heterogeneity and the subject’, in Law, J. and Hassard, J., Actor Network Theory and After, Blackwell (2004 edition)

4. Adapting Hetherington’s model of the museum: “an exhibitionary space in which controlling and ordering processes are subject to heterogeneous effects and uncertainty”

5. The Galleries of Modern London

6. My research

7. “Quite often decisions were made in the tea-room, or passing in the corridor… That was how it had to happen and how it had to evolve and that’s where the project comes alive. If you’re just reading project reports it seems quite statistical, quite regimented and it was never like that at meetings. There would always be tense moments, conflict, laughs a lot of the time, so many people just having fun really. But all of that you would never get from reading minutes, or the statistics of how many objects are in the galleries” (Project Assistant, interview, 02/06/10)

8. Adapting Hetherington’s model of the museum: “an exhibitionary space in which controlling and ordering processes are subject to heterogeneous effects and uncertainty”

9. Installation

10. Case Study

11. Narratives

13. Returning to Hetherington’s model of the museum: “an exhibitionary space in which heterogeneous effects and uncertainty are subject to controlling and ordering processes” Conclusion

14. Thanks for listening