Museums and Stuff

About Me

Museumsandstuff is the personal blog of Jennie Carvill. 

I studied archaeology BA (Durham) and Museum Studies MA (Leicester). Currently living in Vienna, Austria and studying for a PhD (Uni Wien) whilst working. 

Work and Voluntary Placements include:

• Old Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology, Durham, UK
• Bamburgh Research Project, Northumberland, UK
• Beeston Castle, English Heritage, Cheshire, UK
• Verein Gedenkdienst, Vienna, AT
• Documentary Archive of the Austrian Resistance, Vienna, AT
• Austrian Ministry of Justice, “Adolf Eichmann on Trial” exhibition, Vienna, AT

Publications to date:

Carvill, Jennifer A. (2010) Uncomfortable Truths: British museums and the legacies of slavery in the bicentenary year, 2007, Federation of International Human Rights Museums, online http://www.fihrm.org/resources.html

Carvill, Jennifer A. (2011) Ein jüdisches Objekt? in Johler, B. and Staudinger, B. (eds.), 2011 “Von Dreideln, Mazzes und Beschneidungsmessern: Jüdische Dinge im Museum”Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Wien

Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen (Hg.) (erscheint 2012) Dauerausstellungen. Potenzial und Herausforderung einer musealen Form, Transkript Verlag, Bielefeld.