1023150) and is recognised in the UK museum sector as a subject specialist network.
MEG was founded in 1975 at a meeting in Liverpool on Communicating Anthropology — the role of museums, when its first Chair was Peter Gathercole.
[3] The MEG newsletter for many years functioned as a kind of journal, containing scholarly articles despite its photocopied pages.
[citation needed] In 1989, MEG began to publish the Journal of Museum Ethnography (JME), and has done so every year since.
In 2010, MEG reached an agreement with JSTOR to digitise all past issues of JME, as well as the early newsletters.