Samuel Alberti

Nature and culture

Objects, disciplines and the Manchester Museum

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nature and Culture asks how objects were collected and displayed in the twentieth century. It explores natural and cultural objects in the Manchester Museum, a major university collection. How did these specimens come to be there? What happened to them in the collection, and who used them?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780719089039
• ISBN-10: 0719089034
• Artikelnr.: 36124927

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

Introduction: museum historiographies 1. Prologue: the Manchester Natural
History Society 2. Nature: scientific disciplines in the museum 3. Culture:
artefacts and disciplinary formation 4. Acquisition: collecting networks
and the museum 5. Practice: technique and the lives of objects in the
collection 6. Visitors: audiences and objects Conclusion: the museum in the
twentieth century Notes List of archives Bibliography Index