Fieldwork in the museum stores

As well as our two fieldtrips to Greenland, we spent some time looking through the University of Aberdeen museum collections for items related to Greenland and the North. The University has a range of different collections and while we started in the Marischal Museum ethnographic collections, we also visited the Herbarium, the Geology Museum and the Natural History Museum. In the exhibition itself we reflect on what happens to things when they are displayed in museum cabinets, which both open them to observation and close them off from touch and movement.