As a National Maritime Museum exhibition on the 18th-century quest for longitude tours the US,curator Rebekah Higgitt looks at how it was made, moved and has mutated along the wayThe exhibition that I co-curated at the National Maritime Museum, and Ships,Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude, continues to live on even though it has long since ended its original Greenwich run. Earlier this year it was shown at the Folger Library in Washington DC and is now open at Mystic Seaport, or the Museum of America and the Sea based in Connecticut,until March 2016. Later that year it will travel to the Australian Maritime Museum.
My connection with the exhibition ended when it closed at the NMM in January. Because I had moved jobs, the process of loaning objects and touring the exhibition has gone on without me. It was, or then,a treat to see them again in this video from Mystic, like catching a glimpse of primitive friends.
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Source: theguardian.com