Lucie Carreau

Collections Team Coordinator (Stores Move), Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology


Lucie is Collections Team Coordinator for MAA’s Stores Move Project. Originally an art historian specialized in Pacific material culture, and with a fierce interest in the history of museum collections and museum practice, she has worked as a researcher on many projects and exhibitions before her current deep dive into MAA’s biggest ever collections project. She’s never been happier or under more pressure.
Gourd from Kenya stitched with plant fibre

Scars and stitches: Repairs in African collections

by | 27.05.22

What if broken things were not to be mourned, but to be celebrated? The Stores Move project at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has recently completed its work on the West, North and East African collections and uncovered some amazing examples of repairs. Discover how damage can trigger extraordinary displays of skills and strength. In the last few months,… Read full article

Transforming Collections and Ourselves: introducing the MAA Stores Move

by and | 13.08.21

How have you been? You doing OK? Things have been pretty wild here, in a panic-don’t-panic, start-stop kind of way. Last March we were selecting an incredible team of nine Collections Assistants from an extraordinary field of over 700 applicants to join the most ambitious project the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) has undertaken in at least a generation…. Read full article