The working life of Museum of London

The Museum of London recently launched a new web resource called Collections online which currently allows access to over 10,000 objects from the Museum’s collections, available through a single point of access.

The Museum now has ambitious plans for making greater online access to its collections over the next three years, including the addition over 90,000 more objects.

To achieve this aim the Museum has recently taken on four Project Assistants to coordinate the documentation and digitisation necessary to achieve this target.

Working closely with curators and to a strict data standard, they will be upgrading records in our collections management database and either scanning the objects themselves or liaising with photographers to create new digital images.

The four Project Assistants, and their current areas of focus, are:

Anna: Photographs by Henry Grant

Verity: 17th century trade tokens and Roman Samian ware

Ed: Roman coins

Ellie: Trade cards, Valentine cards and Tinsel prints

Records will be released in batches throughout the year and during this time the Project Assistants will be keeping you up to date with their work via blog posts discussing the objects they are digitising and the techniques used to put them online.

So check back soon for the first of our posts starting with updates from Anna and Ellie in the coming weeks.