Museum Storage and Meaning (eBook, ePUB)

Tales from the Crypt
Redaktion: Brusius, Mirjam; Singh, Kavita

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays focuses on the rarely studied hidden spaces in museums and explores issues such as the relationship between storage and canonization, the politics of collecting, the use of museum storage as a form of censorship, the architectural character of storage space, and the economic and epistemic value of museum objects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351659420
• Artikelnr.: 49264699

Autorenporträt

Mirjam Brusius is a research fellow at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford, UK Kavita Singh is a Professor in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Performances of Museum Storage 3. Visible storage,
visible labour? 4. Serendipity, Transparency, and Wonder: The Value of
Visitable Storage 5. Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian, in conversation
with Mirjam Brusius 6. To Store is to Save: Kenneth C. Murray and the
founding of the Nigerian Museum, Lagos 7. "Essential Cure for Dying
Museums": Clarence S. Stein and Study-storage 8. 'Storage' and 'Display':
Local Museum Practices in India 9. Home from Homes: The Movement of Things
from Families to Museums 10. Home Storage: The Reception and Treatment of
Domestic Collections of Aeronautica by the Science Museum and the National
Air and Space Museum 11. Preserving Preservation. Maintaining Meaning in
Museum Storage 12. Hidden Histories: Museum Taxidermy Rediscovered 13. The
Animals went in Two by Two: Shifts in the Classification and Display of
Taxidermy in the Seen and Unseen Spaces of Public Museums 14. Storage and
Sharing: A Suggestion for the Future of Collections of forgeries' 15.
Upstairs, Downstairs. The National Gallery's dual collections 16. The
double life of 'Oriental' textiles at the Byzantine & Christian Museum,
Athens: interpreting storage and displayability of Ottoman silks in 20th
century Greece 17. Lying in wait: inertia and latency in the collection
18. Clothing, Care and Compromise: A Case Study of the Storage of the
Hodson Shop Collection, 1983-2015 19. Loose Bodies: Reserve Collections,
Curatorial Reserva