Samuel Alberti

Nature and Culture

Objects, Disciplines and the Manchester Museum

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a vital new work; the first to take the University of Manchester's Museum as its subject. By setting the museum in its cultural and intellectual contexts, Nature and culture explores twentieth-century collecting and display, and the status of the object in the modern world. Beginning with the origins of the Manchester Museum, accounting for its development as an internationally renowned university museum, and concluding at its major expansion at the turn of the millennium, this book casts new light on the history of museums. How did objects become knowledge? Who encountered museum objects on their way to museums? What happened to collections within the museum? How did visitors use and respond to objects? In answering these questions, Nature and culture illuminates not only the history of one institution, but also contributes to wider discussions in the history of science, cultural history and museology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780719081149
• ISBN-10: 0719081149
• Artikelnr.: 26607270

Autorenporträt

Sam Alberti is Lecturer in Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the Centre for Museology and Research Fellow at the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: museum
historiographies I. Museums and disciplines II. The lives of objects Notes
1. Prologue: the Manchester Natural History Society I. The Museum on Peter
Street II. Visitors and staff III. Transfer and dissolution Notes 2.
Nature: scientific disciplines in the museum I. Unified nature 1887-1910
II. Expanding collections 1910-50 III. Nature dislocated 1950-90 IV.
Conclusion: cultural cartography and the Museum Notes 3. Culture: artefacts
and disciplinary formation I. Culture precipitated 1890-1927 II. Nature and
culture distinguished 1927-69 III. Culture consolidated 1969-90 IV.
Conclusion: shaping disciplines Notes 4. Acquisition: collecting networks
and the museum I. Foundation and empire II. The economy of donation III.
Value for money? IV. The museum and the field V. Transfers and loans VI.
Conclusion: the politics of acquisition Notes 5. Practice: technique and
the lives of objects in the collection I. Preparing and conserving II.
Recording and cataloguing III. Storing and displaying IV. Conclusion:
towards a history of museum practice 6. Visitors: audiences and objects I.
Organising the visitor II. Educating the visitor III. Town and gown IV.
Involving the visitor V. The visitor experience VI. Conclusion: expanding
the history of museums Notes Conclusion: the museum in the twentieth
century Notes List of Archives Bibliography