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Mary Bouquet Bio - I’m trained In Social Anthropology (PhD Cambridge) and specialised in Museum Studies. I work at Utrecht University where I teach at University College. I also coordinate the Cultural Heritage Internship Programme (CHIP) at UCU. Defining periods of my life have been spent in museums: in Lisbon, at the National Museum of Ethnology (mid-1980s); at the former National Museum of Natural History, Leiden (early 1990s); at the former Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Oslo (mid-1990s); and at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (round 2000). These diverse experiences of museums, collections, and exhibitions have given me unique insight into this field of cultural production. I have published several books and articles on museums; Museums: A Visual Anthropology (Berg, Oxford & New York) will be published in 2012. Research – my current research concerns renovation processes in museums: how do these institutions make their historical resources present? What do they choose to profile and how do they do that? And how do these moves fit into broader heritage dynamics whereby certain sites, institutions and practices are identified (or not) as having value that goes a step up from the local? The Tropenmuseum’s bid for recognition of its colonial collection and heritage is a case in point. Photograph – this is me, photographing light effects in the BIG Mountain Building, Copenhagen. Photography is an important methodological tool in museum work, as it is for teaching and researching. It enables us to remember things – including the way that light works in a specific context; and to put together disparate things – as in exhibition-making. It is crucial for researching historical collections and, more generally, for training the eye.