Steven Miller

Museum Collection Ethics

Acquisition, Stewardship, and Interpretation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collection ethics - the third rail of the museum profession. What are the encompassing issues museum face regarding how they acquire, keep and work with their collections? Museum Collection Ethics discusses the complexities inherent in preserving and interpreting the extraordinary range of culturally significant objects entrusted to museums. The book presents an encompassing look at every aspect of the intellectual and stewardship duties museums by definition assume. The differences between ethics, laws, customs, and expectations are discussed. They are not synonymous. Ethics vary widely and are fluid. Essential factors include: ·Defining a museum as an ethical pursuit ·The role of museum governing authorities regarding ethics ·The ethics of collection authority: who is responsible for collection truths ·How museums collect and how ethics influences that activity ·The ethics of assuring collection authenticity ·The ethical access to collections, be it physical or digital ·Ethics and conservation ·Exhibition ethics ·The ethics of collection removals be they voluntary or involuntary This is the first book devoted solely to the ethical concerns museums face regarding their collections.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781538135204
• ISBN-10: 1538135205
• Artikelnr.: 58024252

Autorenporträt

Steven Miller has been in the museum field for nearly fifty years. During that time he has been a curator, administrator, director, trustee, writer, consultant, and museum studies educator. He has served with six major museums in the northeastern United States. He holds a BA in sculpture (with honors) from Bard College and an international graduate certificate in the Principles of Conservation Science from the International Centre for the Study of the Conservation and Preservation of Cultural Property, Rome, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1.
Defining a Museum Chapter 2. Museum Governance Chapter 3. Ethics and
Museums Chapter 4. Collection Authority Chapter 5. Museum Collecting
Methods Chapter 6. Acquisition Ethics Chapter 7. Ethics and Collection
Authenticity Chapter 8. Collection Stewardship and Access Chapter 9. Ethics
and Conservation Chapter 10. Exhibition Ethics Chapter 11. Ethics and
Collection Loss Chapter 12. Museum Collection Ethics Standards Appendix I.
Museum Positions with Direct Collection Connectivity Appendix II. The
Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums, 2002 Appendix
III. A Code of Ethics for Curators, American Association of Museums,
Curators Committee, 2009 Appendix IV. Penn Museum Statement on Human
Remains Appendix V. The Cleveland Museum of Art News Release on Open Access
Appendix VI. American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic
Works. Core Documents: Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice Appendix
VII. "The Ethics of Deaccessioning," by Steven Miller Appendix VIII.
Corcoran Board of Trustees Announces One of the Largest Free Art
Distributions in U.S. History. More than 10,750 Works of Art Going to 22
Institutions in Washington Bibliography Index About the Author