Museum Collecting Lessons (eBook, ePUB)

Acquisition Stories from the Inside
Redaktion: Miller, Steven

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Museum Collecting Lessons explains how and why museums meet their fundamental duty to collect It is the first book of its kind to explore the diverse ways these unique institutions acquire what is preserved and used for exhibitions, programs, publications, and, online applications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000576382
• Artikelnr.: 64093142

Autorenporträt

Steven Miller began his museum career in 1971. He has served as a curator, administrator, director, trustee, writer, consultant, and museum studies educator. For 16 years he was an adjunct professor teaching core courses with the Seton Hall University MA Program in Museum Professions, South Orange, New Jersey, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Making Sense of Your Community Museum Collection: Strategies for Stuff Management
2. Collecting our Culture: Eeyou Cree Collecting at Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute
3. Strategies for Acquiring Contemporary Art: Creativity and Collaboration
4. Collecting Period Rooms: Frank Lloyd Wright's Francis W. Little House
5. A New Museum Builds a Collection: How One Gift Leads to Others: The James A. Michener Museum of Art's Acquisition Success
6. A Museum-Defining Acquisition: The Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
7. Unpacking the Baggage: The Smooth Acquisition and Transfer of the Lee L. Forman Collection of Bags
8. How We Got Our F-16 Fighter Falcon
9. Community Collecting Conversations: Acquisition Stories, District Museum, Jorhat, India
10. Collecting Nonverbal History Documents
11. Barnum Brown's Bones
12. Conclusion