I’ve always kept my own personal museum.  Based around my family and the sentiment that we’ve attached to certain things, be they baby shoes, tummy button clamps, teeth, hair, passport pictures I’ve rarely thrown things away, not because I’m an obsessive horder but because I’ve always seen the value of collections of objects and how they lend themselves to art. This can be most obviously photography and portraiture collection shown at The National Portrait Gallery, The Wellcome Institute to  Joseph Cornell’s boxes and Damian Hirst’s collection of formaldehyde animals.

What I came to realise recently, was that I was surrounded by my art and that is when I started my Personal Museums.  It grew purely from the demand of friends wanting Personal Museums for their own families – it’s a neat way to display the things many of us keep in drawers. We all keep what for some is the detritus of our children but for us and them is fascinating artefacts of their beginnings, but this can be applied to many things not just people.

I make intimate psycho-geography’s of the beginnings and histories of people, places, companies and institutions.  Cities can afford their own museums in a building to keep everything together about their history. A personal Museum is a way to keep, display and treasure your collection of personally historical objects that were the beginning of something great.

Lucy Parker is available for consultation and commissions in creating your Personal Museum Visit Stall