{"id":3661,"date":"2024-09-03T09:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T08:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2024-09-10T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T14:12:39","slug":"th-crusader-coin-collection-museum-of-the-order-of-st-john-partnership-with-the-university-of-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/09\/03\/th-crusader-coin-collection-museum-of-the-order-of-st-john-partnership-with-the-university-of-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crusader Coin Collection &#8211; Museum of the Order of St John partnership with the University of Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the Museum of the Order of St John partnered with the University of Birmingham and two of our students to explore and interpret the internationally important Crusader Coin Collection.<\/p>\n<p>The coins have been the object of the project \u201cBearers of the Cross\u201d, which has made them available on an online catalogue and virtual exhibitions. This project fosters a contextual understanding of their role within the material culture and devotional practices of the Crusades.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3662 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/09\/C4D3BE95-D9C6-411B-807A-ACF495E9DA1B-494x658-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/09\/C4D3BE95-D9C6-411B-807A-ACF495E9DA1B-494x658-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/09\/C4D3BE95-D9C6-411B-807A-ACF495E9DA1B-494x658-1.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ilenia (Masters student in Art History &amp; Curating) and Elizabeth (2nd year Archaeology and Ancient History) share their experience of volunteering at the Museum at <a href=\"https:\/\/museumstjohn.org.uk\/university-of-birmingham-partnership-the-crusader-coin-collection\/\">University of Birmingham Partnership &#8211; The Crusader Coin Collection &#8211; Museum of the Order of St John (museumstjohn.org.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the Museum of the Order of St John partnered with the University of Birmingham and two of our students to explore and interpret the internationally important Crusader Coin Collection. The coins have been the object of the project \u201cBearers of the Cross\u201d, which has made them available on an online catalogue and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/09\/03\/th-crusader-coin-collection-museum-of-the-order-of-st-john-partnership-with-the-university-of-birmingham\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Crusader Coin Collection &#8211; Museum of the Order of St John partnership with the University of Birmingham&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}