April Fakes Day

April Fakes Day is a pan-museum initiative, pivoting the annual custom of "April Fool's Day" to discuss the complexities of identifying and working with fakes and fabrications  in museums and galleries. This project is inspired by Professor Patricia Kingori's current Wellcome funded research which explores fakes, fabrications and falsehoods in different domains. 

The project seeks to encourage museum curators to think differently about their collections, and about what makes a "fake". Audiences are encouraged to think about what something being "fake" really means - and who gets to decide.