Museums Objects And Collections
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Author |
: Susan Pearce |
Publisher |
: Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2017-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588345172 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588345173 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Museums, Objects, and Collections by : Susan Pearce
This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological and social reasons that people collect and identifies three modes of collecting: collecting as souvenirs, as fetishes, and as systematic assemblages. She considers how museum professionals set policies of collection management; acquire, study, and exhibit objects; and make meaning of the objects in their care. Pearce also explores the ideological relationship between museums and their collections and the intellectual and social relationships of museums to the public.
Author |
: Susan M. Pearce |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 357 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415112888 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415112885 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpreting Objects and Collections by : Susan M. Pearce
Bringing together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.
Author |
: Elizabeth Wood |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2017-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351383516 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351383515 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Active Collections by : Elizabeth Wood
In recent years, many museums have implemented sweeping changes in how they engage audiences. However, changes to the field’s approaches to collections stewardship have come much more slowly. Active Collections critically examines existing approaches to museum collections and explores practical, yet radical, ways that museums can better manage their collections to actively advance their missions. Approaching the question of modern museum collection stewardship from a position of "tough love," the authors argue that the museum field risks being constrained by rigid ways of thinking about objects. Examining the field’s relationship to objects, artifacts, and specimens, the volume explores the question of stewardship through the dissection of a broad range of issues, including questions of "quality over quantity," emotional attachment, dispassionate cataloging, and cognitive biases in curatorship. The essays look to insights from fields as diverse as forest management, library science, and the psychology of compulsive hoarding, to inform and innovate collection practices. Essay contributions come from both experienced museum professionals and scholars from disciplines as diverse as psychology, education, and history. The result is a critical exploration that makes the book essential reading for museum professionals, as well as those in training.
Author |
: Miruna Achim |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2021-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816539574 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081653957X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Museum Matters by : Miruna Achim
Museum Matters tells the story of Mexico's national collections through the trajectories of its objects. The essays in this book show the many ways in which things matter and affect how Mexico imagines its past, present, and future.
Author |
: Haidy Geismar |
Publisher |
: UCL Press |
Total Pages |
: 166 |
Release |
: 2018-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781787352834 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1787352838 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age by : Haidy Geismar
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object – a box, pen, effigy and cloak – this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography), and theories of how knowledge is produced in museums on a wide range of digital projects. Swooping from Ethnographic to Decorative Arts Collections, from the Google Art Project to bespoke digital experiments, Haidy Geismar explores the object lessons contained in digital form and asks what they can tell us about both the past and the future. Drawing on the author’s extensive experience working with collections across the world, Geismar argues for an understanding of digital media as material, rather than immaterial, and advocates for a more nuanced, ethnographic and historicised view of museum digitisation projects than those usually adopted in the celebratory accounts of new media in museums. By locating the digital as part of a longer history of material engagements, transformations and processes of translation, this book broadens our understanding of the reality effects that digital technologies create, and of how digital media can be mobilised in different parts of the world to very different effects.
Author |
: Steven Conn |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812221558 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812221559 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Do Museums Still Need Objects? by : Steven Conn
In this broadly conceived study Steven Conn examines the development of American museums across the twentieth century with a historian's attention and a critic's eye. He focuses on an array of museum types and asks illuminating questions about the relationship between museums and American cultural life.
Author |
: Sandra Dudley |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 480 |
Release |
: 2011-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136634239 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136634231 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Thing about Museums by : Sandra Dudley
The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objects in the context of museums, galleries and/or the heritage sector more broadly. Specifically, the book deals with how objects are constructed in museums, the ways in which visitors may directly experience those objects, how objects are utilised within particular representational strategies and forms, and the challenges and opportunities presented by using objects to communicate difficult and contested matters. Topics and approaches examined in the book are diverse, but include the objectification of natural history specimens and museum registers; materiality, immateriality, transience and absence; subject/object boundaries; sensory, phenomenological perspectives; the museumisation of objects and collections; and the dangers inherent in assuming that objects, interpretation and heritage are ‘good’ for us.
Author |
: Catherine A. Nichols |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2021-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781800730533 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1800730535 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Exchanging Objects by : Catherine A. Nichols
As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as “duplicate specimens,” making them potential candidates for exchange. This historical form of what museum professionals would now call deaccessioning considers the intellectual and technical requirement of classifying objects in museums, and suggests that a deeper understanding of past museum practice can inform mission-driven contemporary museum work.
Author |
: Dan Hicks |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1786806835 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781786806833 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Brutish Museums by : Dan Hicks
Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objectsare all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of BeninCity, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
Author |
: Reed Gochberg |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197553480 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197553486 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Useful Objects by : Reed Gochberg
'Useful Objects' examines the cultural history of nineteenth-century American museums through the eyes of writers, visitors, and collectors. Throughout this period, museums gradually transformed from encyclopedic cabinets to more specialized public institutions. These changes prompted wider debates about how museums determine what objects to select, preserve, and display-and who gets to decide. Drawing on a wide range of archival materials and accounts in fiction, guidebooks, and periodicals, this text shows how the challenges facing nineteenth-century museums continue to resonate in debates about their role in American culture today.