Museums and the future of collecting /
Museums and the future of collecting /
edited by Simon J. Knell.
- Second edition.
- vii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Papers originally presented at a conference organized by the Dept. of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Altered values: searching for a new collecting / Collections and collecting / Museums without collections: museum philosophy in West Africa / The future of collecting: lessons from the past / The Ashmolean Museum: a case study of eighteenth-century collecting / The cartographies of collecting / From curio to cultural document / Contemporary popular collecting / Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion / Collecting in time of war / The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa / Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from 'deviant' groups / All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils / What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland / Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork / Collecting: reclaiming the art, systematising the technique / Samdok: tools to make the world visible / Professionalising collecting / Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums / Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings / Ranking collections / Deaccessioning as a collections management tool / Collecting live performance / Redefining collecting / Simon Knell -- Susan Pearce -- Malcolm McLeod -- Richard Dunn -- Patricia Kell -- Rebecca Duclos -- Barbara Lawson -- Paul Martin -- Gaynor Kavanagh -- Zarka Vujic -- Graham Dominy -- Nicola Clayton -- John Martin -- Michael Taylor -- Janet Owen -- Linda Young -- Anna Steen -- Barbro Bursell -- Maria Garcia, Carmen Chinea and Jose Farina -- Jean-Marc Gagnon and Gerald Fitzgerald -- Martin Wickham -- Patricia Ainslie -- James Fowler -- Tomislav Sola. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
0754630056 9780754630050
2004555137
Museums--Acquisitions--Congresses
Museums--Collection management
AM135 / .M864 2004
069.51
Papers originally presented at a conference organized by the Dept. of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Altered values: searching for a new collecting / Collections and collecting / Museums without collections: museum philosophy in West Africa / The future of collecting: lessons from the past / The Ashmolean Museum: a case study of eighteenth-century collecting / The cartographies of collecting / From curio to cultural document / Contemporary popular collecting / Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion / Collecting in time of war / The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa / Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from 'deviant' groups / All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils / What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland / Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork / Collecting: reclaiming the art, systematising the technique / Samdok: tools to make the world visible / Professionalising collecting / Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums / Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings / Ranking collections / Deaccessioning as a collections management tool / Collecting live performance / Redefining collecting / Simon Knell -- Susan Pearce -- Malcolm McLeod -- Richard Dunn -- Patricia Kell -- Rebecca Duclos -- Barbara Lawson -- Paul Martin -- Gaynor Kavanagh -- Zarka Vujic -- Graham Dominy -- Nicola Clayton -- John Martin -- Michael Taylor -- Janet Owen -- Linda Young -- Anna Steen -- Barbro Bursell -- Maria Garcia, Carmen Chinea and Jose Farina -- Jean-Marc Gagnon and Gerald Fitzgerald -- Martin Wickham -- Patricia Ainslie -- James Fowler -- Tomislav Sola. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
0754630056 9780754630050
2004555137
Museums--Acquisitions--Congresses
Museums--Collection management
AM135 / .M864 2004
069.51