Nigel Sadler was hired as a full-time freelance Museum Development Officer for Central London. The work centred on advising museums in the 7 central London Boroughs especially those being invited to apply for Accreditation. This work required a detailed knowledge of the Accreditation process, Renaissance funding, MLA programmes and the ability to work with a variety of museums and collections.
Sands Of Time Consultancy
Private Projects - 2007 to 2009
Researching the slave trade and slave ships for potential publications. This led to the Shire publication 'The Slave Trade'
Creation of the exhibition 'Chained Bodies, Free Minds' for hire or purchase. In support of this Sands of Time Consultancy has also produced its own educational resource.
Development of an Image Archive.
Cayman Islands National Museum
Ongoing 2007 - 2008
In January 2007 Sands of Time Consultancy was hired to assess the Cayman Islands National Museum service and to give advice in getting the museum reopened after the Hurricane in 2004.
Following on from this work Sands of Time Consultancy was commisioned to review the practicality of setting up an archaeology unit within the Museum Service. This report has lead to the hiring of Sands of Time Consultancy in April 2008 to review legislation and to provide recommendations on the process forward.
Press coverage of the visit in April 2008 can be found at:
Sands of Time Consultancy lent Vestry House Museum a range of items to help illustrate their exhibition on slavery. Due to past connections and the present difficulties the museum is undergoing this service was provided as a donation.
Sands of Time Consultancy was hired to assist the creation of the exhibition which ran from August 23rd until October 28th 2007 and then travelled until April 2008 . The work was started in 2006 with preliminary research and completed in September 2007. The work included:
Carrying out the preliminary research for the 12 panels on the transatlantic slave trade
Sands of Time Consultancy was hired to assist the project team in the final stages of the production of the 'Breaking The Chains' exhibition. The work included:
Assisting with the production of the Education Pack
Overseeing the delivery of loan items
Confirming insurance for loan items
Reviewing text captions
Reviewing objects selected for the Caribbean Gallery
Assistting with Installing objects in the gallery
Vestry House Museum
March 23rd - End of May 2007
Sands of Time Consultancy lent Vestry House Museum a range of items to help illustrate their exhibition on slavery. Due to past connections and the present difficulties the museum is undergoing this service was provided as a donation.
