The Museum of Miniature Found Objects is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Keeper of Collections.

Mrs Beryl van Buren will take up the post on Monday 1 July and brings a wealth of experience, her previous post being Chief Archivist at the Museum of Sporting Impedimenta, Honolulu. Prior to that she enjoyed a twelve-month research sabbatical at MIT (Myersville Institute of Technology, Arkansas), her area of study being the cultural heritage sector's role as an aggregator drawing selectively from a notoriously distributed network of content in the digital age. Mrs van Buren says of her appointment, "Managing across the matrix and best practice in a research-driven environment is my first priority!"

The Museum of Miniature Found Objects is delighted to announce that tonight at 8pm in the Alhambra Suite, Blanche de Laine, prize-winning poet, will read from her recently completed work: Whither? In a fast-paced performance Miss de Laine will encounter, enact, experience and perform what it is to be a traveller in an unknown, and unknowable, landscape. She will be reciting her work in the 'experimental mode'. Of this piece she says, "For me poetry is a voyage, through our dreams, our innermost selves, and tonight in the Alhambra we will all be on a journey."

Please note, once the performance has begun, latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable interval.
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Found objects:
= plaster finger (large): 3.14pm, Monday 8 April 2013, Highbury Crescent, north London;
= plaster finger (small): 11.20am, Tuesday 9 April 2013, Highbury Crescent, north London;
= plastic letter U & Y: 12.21pm, Saturday 25 May 2013, Lower Clapton Road, east London;
= silver metal letter O: 9.36am, Thursday 20 October 2011, Woodberry Down, north London.

The Museum of Miniature Found Objects was dismayed to learn yesterday that recent excavation works to enlarge the vaults have caused a number of structural problems. The museum has had to close whilst emergency repairs are undertaken. However, the current exhibition 'Stardust' has moved to the museum Portakabin. This can be found in the Norman Shrapnel Memorial Garden at the rear of the museum, where visitors will still be able to enjoy this timely look at death and the attendant fear of the cosmos as an engine of human history, from the ancients to contemporary times.

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Found objects:

= gold star with hole: 5.37pm, Tuesday 20 March 2012, Lower Clapton Road, east London;

= silvered plastic star: 10.27am, Friday 29 July 2011, Lyne Crescent, east London;

= small silver star: 12.01pm, Thursday 21 July 2011, Elthorne Road, north London;

= two large silver metal stars: 6.59pm, Monday 27 May 2013, Clissold Park, north London;

= two small gold stars: 11.02am, Saturday 24 February 2012, Queen Elizabeth's Walk, north London.

The mighty engine of history, blowing its trumpets and clattering its hooves, was silent — its voice drowned in the sea of cheering that washed in great waves towards the portals of the Museum of Miniature Found Objects. The happy throng gathered there this morning was witnessing the inauguration of the restored museum entrance on this sunny, joyful day. (Since the unfortunate events last year involving a ram raid, visitors have had to use a side door to enter.) Happily from today visitors will once again be able to enjoy use of the museum's fine entrance.