Ann Sumner: Are regional museums sleepwalking into a situation in which university expertise replaces curatorial research?

This question was recently debated by over 100 curators, directors, students, representatives of auction houses and grant-giving bodies at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts.

It was organised by Birmingham Museums Trust and the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Advanced Studies, and it gave us all food for thought.
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