Museums and the Future of Collecting (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Knell, Simon J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. Museums and the Future of Collecting exposes the many meanings of collections, the different perspectives taken by different cultures, and the institutional response to the collecting problem. One major concern is omission, whether this be determined by politics, professional ethics, the law or social agenda. Museums and the Future of Collecting encourages museums to move away from the collecting of isolated tokens; to move beyond the collecting policy and to understand more clearly the intellectual function of what they do. Here examples are given from Australia, Sweden, Canada, Spain, Britain and Croatia which provide this intellectual understanding and many practical tools for evaluating a future collecting strategy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351916424
• Artikelnr.: 47955212

Autorenporträt

Jerry C. Whitaker

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Altered values: searching for a new collecting, Simon Knell
Collections and collecting, Susan Pearce
Museums without collections: museum philosophy in West Africa, Malcolm McLeod
The future of collecting: lessons from the past, Richard Dunn
The Ashmolean Museum: a case study of 18th century collecting, Patricia Kell
The cartographies of collecting, Rebecca Duclos
From curio to cultural document, Barbara Lawson
Contemporary popular collecting, Paul Martin
Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion, Gaynor Kavanagh
Collecting in time of war, Zarka Vujic
The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa, Graham Dominy
Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from 'deviant' groups, Nicola Clayton
All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils, John Martin
What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland, Michael Taylor
Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork, Janet Owen
Collecting: reclaiming the art, systematising the technique, Linda Young
Samdok: tools to make the world visible, Anna Steen
Professionalising collecting, Barbro Bursell
Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums, MarÃa GarcÃa, Carmen Chinea and José Fariña
Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings, Jean-Marc Gagnon and Gerald Fitzgerald
Ranking collections, Martin Wickham
Deaccessioning as a collections management tool, Patricia Ainslie
Collecting live performance, James Fowler
Redefining collecting, Tomislav Sola
Index.