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.

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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…
Full Solar Spectrum

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,…