Museum of Transology

The Museum of Transology (MoT) is a collection of objects and community archive[1] representing the lives of transgender, non-binary and intersex people, curated by its founder E-J Scott.

The collection includes multiple pieces of usually mundane clothing, including t-shirts with activist slogans, a large number of protest placards from pride parades, correspondence with various institutions, popular publications, cosmetics, a large amount of pharmaceutical packaging (particularly for hormone replacement therapy), hospital robes, binders and packets of binding tape, homemade and mass-produced prosthetics, various video material, and preserved human flesh.

[4] The Museum began as series of grassroots community workshops in the Marlborough Pub and Theatre in Brighton in 2014, headed by E-J Scott.

[4] By 2022, the project had collected over 500 objects, including protest signs from a June 2020 Black Trans Lives Matter rally in London.

[12] Also in January, it collected signs used in a protest against the use of Section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 to block the Gender Recognition Reform Bill.

[14] The same month, the Museum of Transology organised a "National Day of Trans Collecting" in anticipation of its 10-year anniversary exhibition expected in 2025, with 15 "drop-off points" across the country for objects to be donated.

Jules Morgan, writing in The Lancet, observed that "the exhibition is intimate, informative, and bold—cultural in a sense, but without much overt political commentary.

"[17] Alex Goldsmith at Evening Standard said that the collection of Black Trans Lives Matter protest signs at the 2023 Out and About!