Martha Fleming
Martha Fleming is a researcher and museum professional with a special interest in the intersections between history of collections, history of science and global histories. She has extensive experience in the creation, management and practice of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research projects between museums and the academy: she has held research, teaching and leadership roles in both collecting institutions and university contexts in the UK, Germany and Denmark.


Any Minute Now
A 'lecture list' of colloquia and conferences at which I am speaking or participating, presenting research in a range of fields of knowledge in which I have expertise.

Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg: The South Sea in the North Sea
For most of the academic year 2019-2020 I have been effecting research on the Museum Godeffroy as a Petra Kappert Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Hamburg’s Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures.

Exhibition Histories in Science and Technology
Exhibition histories as a form began to appear in several disciplines at once in quick succession at the end of the 1990s.

Politics of Natural History
Natural historical materials, beyond the more obvious case…

Research Fellow, University of Göttingen (2018)
Deepening and renewing the connections between university…

Deputy Director: V&A Research Institute
VARI -- the Victoria and Albert Museum Research Institute is…

Senior Research Associate, Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage
Senior Research Associate, Assembling Alternative Futures…

‘Beyond Reception’: Nordic Culture Ministers Meeting, Stockholm
Nordic Culture Forum 2014: Parliament House, Stockholm (30…

Collections-Based Research: University of Reading
Collections-Based Research Programme Director, University…

Museums as Social Learning Spaces: Denmark
'Inclusion and Interdisciplinarity' at Social Learning Space…

Artists Work in the (Science) Museum
'Science Lesson,' Artists work in the museum: histories,…

Looking and Healing: Artists and their Doctors
Looking and Healing: Artists and their Doctors, Lecture Seminar,…

Navigating Interdisciplinarity
Navigating Interdisciplinarity, Wellcome Trust 75 Event,…

Senior Research Associate: Reconstructing Sloane
Research and Project Management, Reconstructing Sloane (2011…

Science Voices, Museum Lives
Co-organiser, Science Voices: Scientists Speak About Science…

Natural History Museum: CAHR
Vice-Chancellor's Investment Fund Secondment, Centre for…

Split + Splice
Split + Splice: Fragments from the Age of Biomedicine, Exhibition…

Thinking Through Objects
Thinking Through Objects, presentation at The Exhibition…

Materials Library
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Materials Library, School…

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Health, Copenhagen
Visiting Associate Professor, Faculty of Health, University…

Barbara Howard: Canadian Art
Drawing Attention: Barbara Howard's Ecologies, in Canadian…

Image, Data and the Mathematical Sublime
Painting by Numbers: Image, Data and the Mathematical Sublime…

Allan Fleming Project
Allan Fleming Project: Publications, Research, Archive Management…

Charles Darwin Trust
Looking With Darwin, for the Darwin and Twentieth Century…

You are Here: The Design of Information
You Are Here: The Design of Information, Curatorial Advisor,…

From Le Musée des Sciences to the Science Museum
From Le Musée des Sciences to the Science Museum: fifteen…

NESTA Fellowship
Fellow, National Endowment for Science Technology and the…

Consultant: Science Museum
Consultant to the Science Museum, London (2003 to 2004)

Consultant: Wellcome Trust
Consultant to the Wellcome Trust, London (2003 to 2004)
I…

Development Manager, Royal Society
Manager, Development Office, the Royal Society, London (2001…

Dennis Rosen Memorial Trust
Founding Trustee, Dennis Rosen Memorial Trust for Art and…

The Publishing Industry and The Book Trade
From very early on I have been as interested in the…

LMU School of Art Architecture and Design
Senior Research Fellowship, Leeds Metropolitan University…

Atomism & Animism
Atomism & Animism, Science Museum, London (1997 to…

Letters and Figures: the book object and the human body
Letters and Figures: relationships between the book object and…

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Visiting Lecturer, Visual Culture for BA Graphic Arts and…

Spencer Landor
Project Manager, Spencer Landor Corporate Design, London…

Studiolo
Studiolo: The Collaborative Work of Martha Fleming and Lyne…

Camberwell College of Art MA in Book Arts
Visiting Tutor, Camberwell College of Arts MA in Book Arts,…

Open Book
Open Book: Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Science Museum…

Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford
Research Residency, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art…

Vermont College Distance-Learning MFA Program
Part-Time Faculty and Visiting Artist, Vermont College…

Concordia University MFA Program, Montreal
Lecturer, Critical Theory and Studio Practice, Concordia…

The Spirit and The Letter and The Evil Eye
The Spirit and The Letter and The Evil Eye, Bath Festivals…

Introduction & Index
Introduction & Index, silkscreened translucent banners…

The Wilds and The Deep
The Wilds and The Deep: Martha Fleming & Lyne Lapointe,…

Eat Me / Drink Me / Love Me
Eat Me / Drink Me / Love Me: The New Museum (New York,…

La Donna Delinquenta
La Donna Delinquenta (Montreal, with Lyne Lapointe, 1987)
The…

Le Musée des Sciences
Le Musée des Sciences (Montréal, with Lyne Lapointe, 1984)
This…

Projet Building / Caserne #14
Projet Building / Caserne #14, for the abandoned Fire Station…

Artforum, Vanguard, Fuse, Afterimage, Live, Body Politic
Until late 1984, I continued to publish in a wide range of…

Art Metropole Video Distribution
Distribution Manager, Artists' Videotapes, Art Metropole,…