by Amber Lincoln
I’m grateful to hear about the culture, art, heritage and histories of the regions surrounding the Great Lakes. I’m one of two permanent curators in the Americas (north and south) section at the British Museum. Jago Cooper, head of the Americas, is the other permanent curator. We often split regions. I tend to focus on North American while he covers the Caribbean and South America. The British Museum collection is listed online (COL), here. The design was updated last year and now is easier to use. Many within the GRASAC network have visited and worked with collections housed at the BM. I’m always grateful to learn during these documentation trips. Please feel free to send comments, information and questions about the collection. There is a feedback form on COL, which eventually comes to me, or you can email me directly, alincoln@britishmusuem.org
Recently, I’ve worked on the Citi Exhibition Arctic: culture and climate. It’s been an incredible circumpolar community effort, including: community advisors from Alaska, Nunavut, Sápmi, and, Sakha Republic, with museum and gallery partnerships from the US, Canada, Russia, Denmark, and Switzerland, as well as academic advisors from the University of Aberdeen, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, The US National Park Service, and the Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Material Culture. Sadly, the pandemic reduced the amount of time this exhibition was available, and so, an online experience was created, a 360˚ Tour, here.