by Naomi Adams | Jul 11, 2025 | Story Telling, Writing
Now that my book, ‘The Years of the Wizard’ is finished and getting published I am going through a transformation. It seems only yesterday that I was in my favourite library, daydreaming my book into existence. But that was yesterday and today is different...
by Naomi Adams | Jul 11, 2025 | Family History, Museums, Story Telling, The Museum Makers, Writing
It’s no surprise that grandmas turn up so often in my stories because I and my two brothers were brought up by our grandmother. Our mother was dead, our father had vanished, and so Gran took us in. And because Gran had been a novelist and was a great storyteller and...
by Naomi Adams | Oct 29, 2020 | Museums, Story Telling, Writing
It goes without saying that museums are story-telling spaces. This is true whether you are thinking of the stories that attach to individual artefacts. Or the bigger stories that underlie the displays and give them shape and coherence. Or the stories that the guides...
by Naomi Adams | Aug 2, 2020 | Family History, Museums, The Museum Makers
If you had to choose one thing to be the star object in the Museum of your Life what would it be? I was wondering this when I was kneeling on the attic floor not long ago, going through boxes of old family stuff which I had stored under the bed. Did I mention that I...
by Naomi Adams | Jul 4, 2020 | Family History, Museums, Story Telling, The Museum Makers
Sometimes an idea strikes you with such freshness and force that you think you are the first person in the world ever to have it. It’s never true of course. I had one of those moments one summer when we were packing up to move house and I was sorting boxes of old...
