The Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG) is a United Kingdom-based collective for those working with and researching

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collections in

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s. It is registered as a

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in England and Wales (no. 1023150) and is recognised in the UK museum sector as a subject specialist network. It is often known to its members by its

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MEG. Its most obvious functions are the annual

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it organises and the journal it publishes.

History

MEG was founded in 1975 at a meeting in Liverpool on ''Communicating Anthropology – the role of museums'', when its first chair was Peter Gathercole.

MEG conference

MEG holds an annual conference, normally hosted by a UK museum. MEG's 2018 conference at the

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concerned the legacy of colonialism in British museums.

Journal of Museum Ethnography

The MEG

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for many years functioned as a kind of journal, containing scholarly articles despite its photocopied pages. In 1989, MEG began to publish the '' Journal of Museum Ethnography'' (JME), and has done so every year since. In 2010, MEG reached an agreement with

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to digitise all past issues of JME, as well as the early newsletters. ;Issues and themes

References

External links

MEG website

MEG blog
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