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In the summer of 2019, Anna Taimr's CHIP placement took place at the Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas (AOA), British Museum. 

“Involvement with three large projects during our placement gave valuable insights into collection management and allowed us to develop the skills of documenting, digitalising, as well as provenance research and object handling. 

Compiling a portfolio for a grantee project of the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) for the head of the EMKP, was one of the exciting projects we were involved with. The EMKP was developed in 2018 by the Keeper of the  Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, together with Arcadia, a charitable fund, with the aim of preserving knowledge of the made-world that is in danger of being lost. The EMKP offers grants to scholars, globally, to document disappearing material practices, resulting in an open-access online repository of films, photographs, archives as well as audio-recordings.

The online open-access end product will act as a storehouse, but will also enable a larger audience, including academics, the interested public, as well as communities themselves, to access what is recorded. In turn, the database will enliven the current collection of not only the British Museum, but any other institutions the grantees work with.

This was an exciting project to have been part of and to explore, especially regarding the nature of digital collections at large institutions such as the British Museum.”

Class of 2019, Interdepartmental Major HUM/SSC