The fund will allow the museum to grow and develop into the future so that even more people can experience the wonderful artefacts and learn about moving image.

Dr Phil Wickham, Curator of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

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Museum celebrates 20th Anniversary with new donation

The University is the custodian of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, the UK’s foremost museum of moving image history. During the year Exeter benefited from a further donation of £180,000 from one of its founders, Peter Jewell.

The collection was gifted to Exeter 20 years ago, and this further donation supports the Museum’s long term development. It has established an endowment fund to support the Museum across a range of curation and research activities, including PhD studentships, acquisitions, exhibitions, conservation and filmmaking.

Thanks to the support of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Trust we were able to offer two visiting scholar stipends to enable research using the collections at the Museum. One
stipend is available to academic and postgraduate researchers based in the UK, and is worth up to £500. The other is for international scholars (academics or postgraduates) and is
worth up to £1,500.

Amelia Seely, who studied for an MSc in Film Curation at the University of Glasgow before coming to Exeter, was appointed to the Bill Douglas PhD studentship.