ROISIN STANBROOK

We are displaying this life jacket as an example of our new approach to collecting, to address current issues. It is particularly important that Manchester Museum collect objects and interviews about current issues such as migration because our mission is to promote understanding between different cultures and to work towards a more sustainable world. Migration, we know, was an important factor affecting the outcome of the Referendum about Britain's membership of the European Union and in the election of Donald Trump as president of the U.S.A. We hope that this work will help us to reach out to Syrian members of the community as well as other diaspora communities... Manchester Museum has an amazing collection of over 4.5 million objects. Much of the collection is Victorian and was put together with the idea that we could collect lots of different examples of things from around the world. The idea was that the museum would be like an encyclopaedia. The reality is that collecting.