Dr Matthew Jones

Working on a book for Bloomsbury - @PhD Art History @HAHP_Sussex @CHASE_DTP - Researcher and writer on museums, racial capitalism, art.

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

RIP
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[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

Or the patronising tone it takes towards shitty visitors whoare not evil for not being able to find toilets etc in poorly laid out museums. There is a lack of empathy in it all, one that comes from a position of cultural capital, of knowing how to ‘behave’ in museums

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

This has been going around my museum friends on insta. Something about it feels off to me

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

I can’t tell if it is the way it continues to divide curatorial staff from visitor services staff (who after all are the ones answering questions in galleries about collections and interpretation day in and day out)

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

Last time I checked Brighton was not in Florida

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

No longer will I just put New York or London when I’m not sure

[Dr Bryony Armstrong (she/her) @BF_Armstrong]

The new Chicago Manual of Style is out and it's no longer required to mention place of publication.

It's a sad day for Basingstoke.

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

East Croydon is the Bermuda Triangle of train stations: all trains enter on time and leave mysteriously very delayed

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

@AylettSamuel Interesting they have gone backwards! Do you know why they chose Museum of London over London Museum in the first place?

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

Very specific gripe: now it is called the London Museum Docklands, not Museum of London Docklands, I can no longer use MoLD whilst writing. Which, to my mind, is much superior than LMD

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

I wonder if it was more interesting and less death by indie bands before the ‘controversy’ of the opening ceremony

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

#ClosingCeremony this is bad in an uninteresting way. At least the opening ceremony was deeply weird even when it wasn’t great

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

Leaving the counter protest in Brighton, great to see only 4 fascists outnumbered by several hundred anti-fascists

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

Ah the clumsy way of trying to explain global history without naming colonialism you always get with the Olympics opening ceremony

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

Would like to remind everyone 45 minutes ago Ian Ward said the West Indies should declare #ENGvWI

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

This is a good headline and all, but have they said anything concrete about things like 'retain and explain' or the restitution of stolen objects?

https://t.co/TOYbusR3p6

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

Appreciate a commentator who is willing to have fun/say something silly than the sinkholes of charisma that are your Danny Murphy/Lee Dixon types

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

Still reeling (wheeling?) from 'pressure is for tyres' lmao

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

Those 13 seats for reform are dire, just because of a lab majority doesn't mean farage or the far right are going anywhere

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

joe hart was right 🙃

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

nailed it joe hart

[Dr Matthew Jones @MatthewMuseums]

God maybe joe hart was right