Introducing Safekeeping, an online exhibition curated by students on the University of Aberdeen’s Museum Studies MLitt.
There is a mystery, a sense of excitement walking into an exhibition space. Whether it is art or history, the cool room, low lights and pristine glass protecting what is behind it make you feel like you are on the precipice of a discovery. Exhibitions and museums in general give you the opportunity to learn at your own pace, to decide how and when you learn something new, but the main facet is that you learn no matter how the information is delivered.
It seemed almost predestined that this year’s Museums Studies Postgraduate students would be the first to navigate the University of Aberdeen’s first student-led online exhibition. Months prior to the development of COVID-19 and the life-altering social distancing we are all experiencing, the ultimate goal of our exhibition ‘Safekeeping’ was to investigate the idea of ‘protection’ and how what people value is evident in what they protect.