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Name

Anthony Lewis

Brief Biography

Glasgow Museums Staff, Curator, 2006 -

Occupation

Curator of Scottish History

Description

Anthony Lewis has been Curator of Scottish History since 2006. However he has worked for Glasgow Museums since 1991/2 as both a Venue/Gallery Assistant, 1991–2003, and Learning Assistant, 2003–5/6. He is currently responsible for collections covering Scottish Government and Nobility, Scottish Banking, Jacobite and Hanoverian conflicts, Scottish military medals, mental health collections, Scottish literature, including Robert Burns, Scottish communion, trade and transport tokens and Scottish rural life as well as working closely with the Provands Lordship collection.

Anthony received his PhD on ‘The Builders of Edinburgh's New Town 1767–95’ from The University of Edinburgh, 2006 and a book of the same title followed in 2014. He has also studied Art History at The University of Manchester, Cultural Resource Management at The University of Edinburgh and Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.

His research interests include Scottish history, archaeology, and urban history as well as museum provision and professions. He has delivered many tours, talks and lectures and University courses concerning these fields and had numerous articles published on Scottish history, including Scottish urban history, Glasgow Museums' Jacobite collections, Glasgow's Mary, Queen of Scots collections and Glasgow's legacies of slavery and empire. He has added acquisitions to the collections and continued to update object descriptions and collection knowledge to be shared and developed further. He has developed community co-curated displays and exhibitions since 2007. For example, on Glaswegian pilgrimages, Glasgow archaeology, medieval Glasgow, and Georgian Glasgow. He is currently developing digital displays with families living on South Uist to represent their thoughts and feelings on art work made by their relatives which reside in the Art Extraordinary collections, and physical displays developed through working with psychiatric hospital patients and carers.

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