Last week (20 August), a Twitter chat organised by Heritage 2020 in partnership with Paul Hibberd of the LNWR George the Fifth Steam Locomotive Trust, explored replicas as a means of creating ‘living’ heritage, interpretation and understanding. Topics covered included how to define a replica in the context of heritage and how replicas add value
Month: August 2020
The Bridges Archaeology Collection In 1994 Mrs Margaret Bridges, a Fife resident, donated a collection of Cypriot archaeological material to the University of St Andrews for educational use. The artefacts range in date from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period and provide fascinating glimpses into the ancient world – from trade, technology and consumption
Why are we seduced by the idea of the ‘original’ and drawn to the old, worn or ruined? Is the aura of a ‘thing’ bound to its materiality, or is its aura a social construct capable of migrating to other objects, replicas or reproductions? These questions lay the foundation for my practice-based PhD scholarship, which
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