by Naomi Adams | Sep 28, 2014 | Museums, Story Telling
We are at Sutton Hoo, the Museum’s Researcher and me, on a day to die for – a white sun, a pearl-grey sky as huge as the ocean, the wind in the fir trees, the sound of a tractor, and a jumpy radiance in the empty air over the heathlands. We are only an hour out of...
by Naomi Adams | Aug 3, 2014 | Story Telling, Writing
True confessions: I was once a teenage geek with a passion for ancient Greece. Where this obsession came from I don’t know, but I do remember – in the remote Essex village where we lived – picking my way through the poems of Homer, charmed by the smooth,...
by Naomi Adams | Dec 26, 2013 | Museums, Story Telling, Writing
26th December 2013: It’s mid-winter, and London is deep in darkness, wind and rain. It’s the time of year when the house fills up – sleeping bodies in every room – and me with a cup of coffee, reading through the long, dark, early mornings. And it’s...
by Naomi Adams | Dec 12, 2013 | Museums, Story Telling
12 December 2013: Looking back over the last year I realise that we have spent large parts of it advising clients on how to build imaginary worlds. It’s a lovely way to earn a living. Our imaginary worlds are historic spaces in old mills, castles, 19th...
by Naomi Adams | Sep 11, 2013 | Museums, Story Telling, Writing
11 September 2013: Am just back from the baroque library in St Gallen in Switzerland, to which we made a detour (two changes of train and much dragging of luggage up and down stairs) because I am romantic about the history of books – which is probably because I...
