Global Derbyshire in 10 Objects

World Cultures: In Conversation with Anisha Parmar


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Over the last three years, thousands of people have worked with Derby Museums to co-produce ‘Objects of Love, Hope and Fear: A World Collection’. People on the streets of Derby, co-production volunteers and new friends across the globe have cleaned, photographed, researched, interpreted and displayed this important collection of objects.

However, a gallery like this can never be considered finished and interpreting these objects makes us have honest, open and sometimes uncomfortable conversations about how these objects came to be in the museum’s collection, how they have been labelled and how they represent Derby today.

In this last episode, a conversation in the World Cultures Gallery at Derby Museums, jewellery designer Anisha Parmar talks to Rachel Atherton (Derby Museums) about she has been inspired by some objects and how her own journey has led her to add her own intricate object to the gallery.

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