Manual of Curatorship (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to Museum Practice
Redaktion: Thompson, John M. A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on original contributions by specialists, this manual covers both the theory and the practice required in the management of museums. It is intended for all museum and art gallery profession staff, and includes sections on new technology, marketing, volunteers and museum libraries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 775
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317791591
• Artikelnr.: 43418617

Autorenporträt

John M. A. Thompson

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Museum Context
1: Introduction
2: Museums and their precursors: a brief world survey
3: Ideological Criticism and Pluralism
4: The organization of museums
5: The Museums & Galleries Commission
6: Enabling legislation for museums
7: National museums
8: The national galleries
9: University museums
10: Local Authority museums and galleries
11: Independent museums
12: Ethics of curatorship in the UK
2: Management and Administration
13: The role of the director
14: Financial management
15: Museums and marketing
16: Personnel management
17: The management of volunteers
18: The management of museum buildings
19: Building a new museum: the roles and relationship of curator and architect in planning and project management
20: Security
21: Information technology in museums
22: Law and legislation
3: Conservation
23: Introduction
24: Documenting collections
25: Conservation documentation
26: Control and measurement of the environment
27: Buildings, environment and artefacts
28: Conservation and storage: archival paper
29: Conservation and storage: prints, drawings and water-colours
30: Conservation and storage: easel paintings
31: Conservation and storage: photographic materials
32: Conservation and storage: textiles
33: Conservation and storage: leather objects
34: Conservation and storage: wood
35: Conservation and storage: ceramics
36: Conservation and storage: stone
37: Conservation and storage: metals
38: Conservation and storage: machinery
39: Conservation and storage: archaeological material
40: Conservation and storage: geological material
41: Conservation and storage: zoological collections
42: Herbarium practice
43: Object handling
44: Storage systems
45: Conservation aspects of storage and display
46: Pest control in museums
47: Scientific examination of artefacts
48: Disaster planning
4: Collections Research
49: Collections research: local, national and international pespectives
50: The nature of museum collections
51: Researching geological collections
52: Archaeological research collections: prehistoric and Roman
53: Archaeological research collections: medieval and post-medieval
54: The hardware of science
55: Research: natural science collections
56: Research: fine-art collections
57: Research - social history
58: Research: social-history sources
59: Classical antiquities: forgeries and reproductions
60: Coins: fakes and forgeries
61: Collections research: industry
5: User Services
62: Introduction
63: Museum libraries
64: Museum publications: a descriptive and bibliographic guide
65: Museums and education: a bibliographic guide
66: Communicating through museum exhibitions
67: Exhibition design
68: Museum education
69: Approaches to summative evaluation
70: Retailing
71: Enquiries