Danielle Thom is a curator, currently at London’s Design Museum, and also a writer, broadcaster and lecturer. She has a dual focus on contemporary craft and design, and eighteenth-century sculpture and decorative arts, and works to locate objects and images in their wider social and cultural contexts. 

Amongst other things, we talk about the different approaches to conservation she has come across in her career and balancing a curatorial approach to your home with actually living in it. She speaks about the deaccessioning process, and about working with un-typical museum objects, sharing with us her curator experiences in some amazing museums.

Danielle’s website

V&A: Plaster cast collection

Museum of London: London Making Now

Museum of London: Pleasure Gardens

Design Museum

Hidden Treasures of the National Trust: Series 1, Episode 2

Thanks as always to CCW Research and the Centre for Circular Design who funded this podcast, Meghan Hutchins and illustrator Debbie Powell who helped bring it to life.