{"id":21602,"date":"2018-01-25T12:54:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/?page_id=21602\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T17:55:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:55:39","slug":"guislaine-lemay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/team\/guislaine-lemay\/","title":{"rendered":"Guislaine Lemay"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Curator, Material culture<\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>Beyond its materiality, an object carries cultural and social significance, as well as a personal and often emotional meaning. <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>It is these fascinating hidden stories that I enjoy bringing to light. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Guislaine Lemay joined the Museum in 1992, working primarily with the Indigenous Cultures collection. She studied anthropology and archeology and holds a master\u2019s degree in ethnohistory from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. In 2010, she took charge of the Museum&#8217;s Decorative Arts collection. Since then, she has explored the world of play and developed expertise in children&#8217;s museology by working on annual toy exhibitions aimed at young visitors (and their parents) such as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musee-mccord.qc.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/the-topsy-turvy-storyland\/\"><em>The Topsy-Turvy Storyland<\/em><\/a><\/strong><em>, <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musee-mccord.qc.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/mister-rabbit-circus\/\"><em>Mister Rabbit&#8217;s Circus<\/em><\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord.qc.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/treasures-in-the-attic\/\"><em>Treasures in the Attic<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, to name a few. In 2016, with funding from Quebec&#8217;s digital culture plan, she took part in a major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord.qc.ca\/en\/collections\/ceramics-and-glassware\/\">digitization project to photograph pieces of glassware and ceramics<\/a> from the Museum&#8217;s collection.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, she was named Curator of Material Culture, a collection created following the merger of the McCord Museum and the Stewart Museum. This extensive collection consists of artefacts that illustrate domestic interiors, scientific advances, community life and consumption habits. The range of objects includes furniture, items related to food preparation, interior decoration and household management, numismatic materials, terrestrial globes and navigation instruments, hunting, fishing and sporting equipment, weapons and objets d\u2019art.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/material-culture\/\">More about the Material Culture Collection<i class=\"arrow-right-thickicon-\"><\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"cta\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/155920\/material-culture\/objects\">Explore the collection online<i class=\"arrow-right-thickicon-\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curator, Material culture Beyond its materiality, an object carries cultural and social significance, as well as a personal and often emotional meaning. \u00a0It is these fascinating hidden stories that I enjoy bringing to light. ________ Guislaine Lemay joined the Museum in 1992, working primarily with the Indigenous Cultures collection. 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