Lindow Man
The British Museum has agreed to lend the body of Lindow Man to the Manchester Museum between April 2008 and March 2009. The Museum has already run two very successful Lindow Man exhibitions in 1987 and 1991 and this will be the third occasion on which he has returned to the North West.
Since those earlier exhibitions the Manchester Museum has introduced new ways of working in the development of its temporary and permanent displays, which place more emphasis on inclusiveness, on consultation and on making publicly visible the processes by which we create exhibitions. The museum accepts that it does not hold a monopoly on the interpretation of the objects it puts on display and that there is no one single authoritative voice which speaks through the displays. This reflects changes in the theory of knowledge or epistemology and in approaches to exhibition both within the museums profession as a whole and within the Manchester Museum.
We now have a Lindow Man blog running to keep you informed and involved in the development of the exhibition.
Consultation with stakeholders is integral to the Museum's practice and an essential prerequisite of developing exhibitions and other projects. This document represents the first stage of the consultation process for Lindow Man.