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He worked on the development of the permanent displays such as \u2018Worlds of Man\u2019 (1983), \u2018Town and Country\u2019 (1991) and \u2018The Earth Beneath Your Feet \u2018(1993)." } ], "earliest": 1974, "value": "1974-1996", "latest": 1996 }, { "century": [ "20" ], "role": [ { "value": "university lectures" } ], "description": [ { "value": "Whilst working at Saffron Walden Len Pole occasionally lectured at University College London, Institute of West African Studies, University of Birmingham and University of Cambridge." } ], "earliest": 1975, "value": "1975-1985", "latest": 1985 }, { "century": [ "20" ], "role": [ { "value": "curator of ethnography at the royal albert memorial museum and art gallery" } ], "description": [ { "value": "In 1996 Pole was employed by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery in Exeter as Curator of Ethnography. He managed the development of the World Cultures galleries which opened in June 1999. 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Other recent projects include the curation of the World Cultures gallery in the new Great North Museum in Newcastle (2006-2009), the new Explorers Gallery at Torquay Museum (2004-2007) and the co-curation of the \u2018Human Cargo\u2019 exhibition in Plymouth Museum (2007). Pole additionally served as a Curatorial Consultant for the West Africa section of \u2018Breaking the Chains\u2019 exhibition at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol (2007). Len Pole is currently involved in the \u2018Effective Collections\u2019 project which seeks to improve the use of World Cultures collections in five East Anglian museums. 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He now works as a museum consultant on ethnographic collections (www.lenpole.com).\n\nAfter having curated numerous exhibitions at the Horniman Museum including \u2018Crafts of Nigeria\u2019 (1967), \u2018Hadza of East Africa\u2019 (1968) and \u2018Masks of the World\u2019 (1970), Len Pole moved to Ghana. He was employed as Assistant Keeper at the Ghana National Museum in Accra from 1971-1974.He returned to England in 1974 and served as curator of the Saffron Walden Museum until 1996. Here Len Pole worked on the development of the permanent displays such as \u2018Worlds of Man\u2019 (1983), \u2018Town and Country\u2019 (1991) and \u2018The Earth Beneath Your Feet \u2018(1993). Whilst working at Saffron Walden he occasionally gave lectures at University College London, Institute of West African Studies, University of Birmingham and University of Cambridge (1975-1985). \n\nIn 1996 Pole was employed by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery in Exeter as Curator of Ethnography. 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