Miranda Lowe Explained

Miranda Lowe
Occupation:Natural historian
Curator
Discipline:Natural history
Workplaces:Natural History Museum

Miranda Constance Lowe is a British museum curator. She is principal curator of crustacea at the Natural History Museum, London and a founder member of Museum Detox.[1]

Career

She has particular expertise in peracarida and coral taxonomy, and she manages the museum's collections in crustacea and cnidaria. She has published work on the museum's collection of 182 glass sea creatures made by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka.

She is a committee member of NatSCA, the Natural Sciences Collections Association.[2]

In 2018 Lowe and Subhadra Das of the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy co-authored "Nature Read in Black and White: decolonial approaches to interpreting natural history collections",[3] described by the Linnean Society's head of collections as "eye-opening".[4] They went on to be founding members of Museum Detox, an organisation bringing together BAME museum workers in the UK.[5] [6]

In July 2020 Lowe was appointed as a Trustee of York Museums Trust.[7]

In September 2020 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity, when her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was a moon jellyfish.[8]

In December 2020 she explained about bias in the fossil record within the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture about Planet Earth given by Christopher Jackson.[9] Four months later she was elected Chair of the Board of Trustees overseeing the United Kingdom arts diversity charity Culture&.[10]

Selected publications

Honours and awards

In November 2020 she was included in the BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Power list 2020.[11]

In 2021, Lowe and Subhadra Das were awarded the Society for the History of Natural History President's Award. The citation said that "their efforts have together sent a clarion call to museums and heritage organisations to acknowledge colonial histories and to take action."[12]

Lowe was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to science communication and diversity in natural history.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Miranda Lowe . www.nhm.ac.uk . Natural History Museum . 23 September 2020 . en.
  2. Web site: Miranda Lowe . www.natsca.org . Natural Sciences Collections Association . 23 September 2020.
  3. Das . S. . Lowe . M. . Nature Read in Black and White: decolonial approaches to interpreting natural historycollections . Journal of Natural Science Collections . 2018 . 6 . 4–14 . 23 September 2020.
  4. Web site: Charmantier . Isabelle . Black Lives Matter in our Collections . The Linnean Society . 23 September 2020 . 11 June 2020.
  5. Web site: Imbler . Sabrina . In London, Natural History Museums Confront Their Colonial Histories . Atlas Obscura . 23 September 2020 . en . 14 October 2019.
  6. Web site: About us . Museumdetox . Museum Detox . 23 September 2020 . en.
  7. News: York Museums Trust appoint two new trustees . 13 July 2020 . York Press.
  8. Web site: Series 15, Episode 3 . The Museum of Curiosity . BBC Radio 4 . 23 September 2020.
  9. Web site: CHRISTMAS LECTURES 2020: Planet Earth: A user's guide . The Royal Institution . 28 December 2020 . 23 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210423083900/https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/2020-planet-earth-a-users-guide . dead .
  10. Web site: 2021-03-19 . Two 'inspired appointments' to Culture& Board aim to strengthen museums sector ties . 2022-06-02 . Museums + Heritage Advisor . en-GB.
  11. Web site: Woman's Hour Power List 2020: The List . BBC Radio4 . 16 November 2020.
  12. Web site: SHNH President's Award . 2022-06-02 . Society for the History of Natural History . en-US.

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