About

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Founded in 2014, the Museum of Transology collects objects donated by trans, non-binary and intersex people that share our gender stories. Each object has a handwritten label attached explaining its personal significance to the donor.

The collection has been built through community collecting events, catalogued in community archiving workshops across the UK and Ireland and online and used to stage community exhibitions. Thousands of people have taken part in building the museum together, donating objects, travelling far and wide to collect, writing up collections metadata, transcribing 1000s of tags, helping to document the collection and its condition, and by building exhibitions using reclaimed and recycled materials.

Together our collection forms a record of trans culture, activism and everyday life, ensuring that our stories are preserved for future genderations.

And yes, we’re still collecting.

Our Team

A man looking into the camera holding a jar containging his breast tissue

E-J Scott

Curator

A person in a red beannie holding the cutest dog that ever lived.

Zed Gregory

Graphic Designer

Beau Brannick

Collections Manager

Beau Brannick

Collections Manager

Beau (they/them) is the Collections Manager at the Museum of Transology. As Collections Manager, they care for the collection of over 2,000 objects based at Bishopsgate Institute, manage the searchable online collections catalogue and work collaboratively with partners across the UK through the Trans Pride Collective and partnering institutions.

Alongside this, they work at Queer Britain as the Exhibitions and Displays Manager (Assistant Curator). As Assistant Curator, they have contributed to the redevelopment of Queer Britain's gallery re-opening, including an Arts Council England funded co-curation project working to develop a display on the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre. They hold an MA in Queer History from Goldsmiths University of London and a BA in Illustration from Camberwell College of Arts, University of London.

Over the last 5 years, they have held roles at Norfolk Museum Service and the Museum of Cambridge, working across collections, curation and programming. This includes projects such as 'Legacies of Windrush in Cambridge', an Arts Council England funded co-curated exhibition celebrating the voices of the Windrush generation and 'Cambridge Disability Heritage', an Esmée Fairbairn Foundation funded project placing disabled individuals at the forefront of researching, curating, and sharing the histories of disabled people in Cambridgeshire.

Their current research interests are centred around lesbian and dyke history, disability studies, crip theory and the intersections of queerness and textiles.