The 18^th of May is International Museums Day (IMD), which, in 2024, focuses on the potential for museums and collections to unlock knowledge. HRC Director, Kylie Message suggests that although this objective is uniquely suited to university museums, it can only be realised if the discoverability, management, and accessibility of their collections is vastly improved.

"University collections are repositories for millennia of knowledge and represent generations of knowledge-management systems. They provide data for innovative thinking across disciplines, and tell stories about how and why research was undertaken and valued in specific places and times. They play a vital role in preserving historical, artistic, scientific, socio-cultural and spiritual values for past, present and future generations."

Read the full article on the LSE [London School of Economics] Impact Blog below.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/05/15/recognising-the-potential-of-university-collections-as-research-infrastructure/
Message, Kylie, 2024, ‘Recognising the potential of university collections as research infrastructure’, LSE [London School of Economics] Impact Blog, 15 May.