Engaging with the Archive: The Experience of a University Museum

Jo Elsworth

University Museums

Collections at University of Bristol

Theatre Collection

Map of London from Civitates Orbis Terrarum,

published by G Braun and F Hogenberg, 1572. National Review of Live Art, 2009.

(All performances recorded on miniDV)

Above: University Summer School for the Visually Impaired

Left: Students consulting a model of the Studio Theatre

Our role

Teaching: Primary Research Skills

The Room, 2007. Photographer: Graham BurkeThe Room, 1957 Photographer: Unknown

Teaching: Creative Engagement

Undergraduate Production, The Exhibitionists. 2008Photographer: Graham Burke

Eric Jones Evans’ Make Up Box

Research: Cultural Stagings

Tree as Fagin, Oliver Twist, 1905 Poster advertising first study day (2008)

Research: 2MP Project

Cornish Ordinalia, Bristol Drama Dept. 1969

Medieval Players Archive, Deposited 2009

External Collaboration:Bristol Old Vic

Theatre Royal Auditorium c 1950.

Richard Southern Collection

Redevelopment works 1972/3

Bristol Old Vic Archive

Collaborations with Practitioners: National Review of Live Art

Anne Seagrave Jamais Vu, 2007.

Photographer: Manuel Vason

Contemporary Challenges: Franko B Archive

Franko B and his archive,

Toynbee Studio, London. 2008

Franko B archive

Franko B. Mama I can’t sing, 1995 (left)

Franko B. I Miss You, 2000 (above)

Photographer: Manuel Vason

Plus papers, photography, artwork, A/V recordings (various formats), digital media and an apple mac along with clothes, objects, props and other “bio-hazards”

Franko B archive

The Drama Research Centre

NVB Architects: Street View