This interview discusses Joe's interest and approach in studying and curating coins, as well as the research being undertaken on the British Museum's South Asian coin collection. In this interview Joe talks about his interest in Asian numismatics and his initial work at the British Museum. He discusses the idea and curation of the British Museum's HSBC Money gallery. We discuss his collaboration projects with scholars from South Asia and the access that different audiences have to these collections.
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This interview discusses Joe's interest and approach in studying and curating coins, as well as the research being undertaken on the British Museum's South Asian coin collection. In this interview Joe talks about his interest in Asian numismatics and his initial work at the British Museum. He discusses the idea and curation of the British Museum's HSBC Money gallery. We discuss his collaboration projects with scholars from South Asia and the access that different audiences have to these collections.
Interview with Robert Bracey on South Asian Coin Collections in the British Museum by Shreya Gupta
Asian Studies Centre
1 hour 26 minutes
1 year ago
Interview with Robert Bracey on South Asian Coin Collections in the British Museum by Shreya Gupta
This interview discusses the afterlives of coin collections from South Asia held in UK museums today. In this interview, Robert Bracey speaks about his past and ongoing work at the British Museum as the current Curator of Asian Numismatics. He talks about some of the research being conducted on the museum’s South Asian coins, particularly on the Kushan coin collection. The speakers discuss the services provided for visitors and scholars to the British Museum including the Study Room and Collections Online, and attempt to understand the lives of these coins inside the British Museum after they have made their journey from South Asia to the UK. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
Asian Studies Centre
This interview discusses Joe's interest and approach in studying and curating coins, as well as the research being undertaken on the British Museum's South Asian coin collection. In this interview Joe talks about his interest in Asian numismatics and his initial work at the British Museum. He discusses the idea and curation of the British Museum's HSBC Money gallery. We discuss his collaboration projects with scholars from South Asia and the access that different audiences have to these collections.
