Thinking about things

Thinking about museums is always thinking about things – objects – and how they behave in the world, the memories and stories that are embedded in them and how they will bear witness in the future.

On the Shore has been a record of random thoughts and ideas as I tackled my first year as director of the National Museum. The blog will now be archived and I am closing with a quote from the marvellous sonnets of Jorge Luis Borges from a poem entitled ‘Things’.