• IN THE STUDIO WITH
    MUSEUM OF TRANSOLOGY
  • The Museum of Transology (MoT) is the UK’s most significant collection of objects representing trans, non-binary and intersex people’s lives....

    The Museum of Transology (MoT) is the UK’s most significant collection of objects representing trans, non-binary and intersex people’s lives. 

     

    Never again will historians be able to say that you can’t call trans people ‘trans’ in the past. Never again will trans, non-binary and intersex people be hard to find in history. And never again will the records of our lives be written by the media that spectacularise us, the legal systems that criminalise and the psychiatrists who pathologise us. 

     

    The erasure of transcestry ends here with the Museum of Transology. The collection is as diverse as the trans experience itself, yet shares narratives of hope, despair, ambition, confidence and desire. These narratives have been printed in this catalogue unedited, so as to retain the authentic voices of the authors. In order for these objects to be preserved for future generations, the collection needs a permanent home in a UK museum, where it can be cared for properly. To write out transcestry is one thing: to write it back in will make theirstory.

     

    - From the Museum of Transology Website

  • Together with QUEERCIRCLE, Museum of Transology will prepare for the National Day of Collecting by training their members and volunteers in the practice of archiving, safeguarding and other transferable skills for the upliftment of the trans community. One of the goals of this project is to showcase the incredible breathe of the trans community in the UK and those who stand in solidarity by displaying and archieving thousands of placards from trans pride marches and events around the country. Volunteers will also be able to work with new additions to the archive from incredible artist like Nando Messias.  

  • The Museum of Transology’s collection was built by E-J Scott as a form of curatorial direct action designed to halt...

    The Museum’s Founder, E-J Scott

    The Museum of Transology’s collection was built by E-J Scott as a form of curatorial direct action designed to halt the erasure of transcestry. E-J established the MoT with the collection of artefacts they saved from their gender affirming surgery (including human remains, medical documentation and hospital room ephemera).

     

    In 2014, Scott launched the MoT’s community collecting project in Brighton (by the seaside less than an hour from London), thought to be home of the largest population of trans people in the UK. Rather than asking trans, non-binary, and intersex people to go into the museum environment (of which they were sceptical), E-J ran community collecting workshops in queer community spaces. This built trust within the broader trans community in the intent and integrity of the project, and it swiftly grew in scale.