Interpretations 2025 – online exhibitions

MA students from the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies are curating eight new online exhibitions using a range of open access collections.

The exhibitions have been developed as part of Interpretations — a core module for students taking MA courses in Art Gallery and Museum Studies and Arts Management and Heritage Studies.

Using an action learning approach, students are supported to learn about object research, interpretive practice, text writing, visual communication and marketing.

Visit the exhibitions

Full details and access to each of the eight online exhibitions can be found on the the events pages of the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage website. Links will be made available from 11 December.

A Journey Not Alone – The Companionship Hidden in Daily Life
The Getty Museum

Animals Through Human Eyes
Smithsonian Institution open access

Anonymous Voices: The Art of the Unseen
Yale Center for British Art collections online

Body and Lens: Who Owns the Body?
Metropolitan Museum of Art

D/deaf Accessibility to Healthcare Through the Ages
Wellcome Collection

From Private Pleasure to Shared Experience: The Social Journey of Tea Time
York Museums Trust

From Wires to Wifi: How telecommunication technology shaped the university life
Science Museum Group Collection Online

Mirrors of Loneliness
Art Institute of Chicago

Feature images

Images taken from two collections used for exhibitions created for Interpretations 2024. From left:

Walter Richard Sickert, The Acting Manager, Honoré Daumier, 1842 (detail). Lithograph on newsprint, h 24.8 cm × w 20.8 cm. The Acting Manager | The Art Institute of Chicago. CC0. 1.0 Universal license.

Science Museum Group. [no date]. Personal Computer, model Apple I (detail). [Accessed 30/11/2025]. Image available under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence.