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As part of the On Collecting art project Amy Forrest and Alison Board consider the status of artefacts. The use of the glass display case as a magical device to transform collections or worthless objects into valuable works of art. The vitrine becomes integral to the work sculpturally and spatially...

As part of the unit ‘Articulating Time and Space’ BA Fine Art level 4 students were offered the opportunity to respond to the Museum of Design in Plastics. Not specifically to the collection of plastics but to the idea of Museology. Museums, the classification and systems for archiving–which relate...

Did you know MoDiP started life in 1988 as a small collection of objects used as a teaching resource? A selection of objects from the MoDiP collection Originally known as the Design Collection, the museum was created to enhance student learning, providing access to international, historical and...

The MoDiP collection is used in many different ways by the AUB’s students and staff. Back in October 2010 a member of the teaching staff, Sarah Charles from the FdA Fashion Design and Technology, rang me up to request ‘some weird things, the more bizarre the better’. At MoDiP we love a challenge...

MoDiP’s current exhibition Nature’s Plastic: Artefacts from the collection of the Worshipful Company of Horners investigates the historic uses of one of synthetic plastic’s ancestors. This exhibition will be open until 8th April 2011. Horn is defined as the hard material covering the outer soft core...

Did you know that what you see in our exhibition space is only a small percentage of the collection? We have over 10,000 objects many of which are in store. If you would like to view an object in store please contact the museum and we will happily get it out for your studies. Louise Dennis,...

Each year the Worshipful Company of Horners runs a national competition for student designers. This year MoDiP has had the pleasure of displaying three of the prizing winning designs. DESIGN INNOVATION IN PLASTICS AWARD 2010 The Award was originally established in 1985 as the BASF Design Award and...

Did you know MoDiP is open whenever the library is? The door is always open for you to view the exhibition. If you would like to talk to a member of staff there is usually someone available Mon-Fri 9.30 – 16.00 or you can contact us by telephone or email. Louise Dennis, (Assistant Curator)

Today we were visited by Ken Crowe, Keeper of Human History at Southend Museums Service http://www.southendmuseums.co.uk/ . He came to see us to swap information on Ekco (E.K. Cole Ltd) plastics. Ekco's Plastics Divison was located at Southend-on-Sea and the Museums Service there has built up a...

On the 8th February 2011 the MoDiP team attended the Look-Here! end of project conference (link to vads blog). The project looked at ways of digitising museum, library and archive collections to create better access to the artefacts housed. I have attended the 6-weekly meetings of the project which...