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Fragments of the world : uses of museum collections /
During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum collections as a whole are enormous in size and quantity and the question of how can they can be put to best use is ever present. When conventio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego ; Oxford : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann,
Elsevier Science and Technology Books ;
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Fragments of the World; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of figures; 1. Introduction; Museum directions and perceptions; Concerns articulated; Why the problem?; Too much stuff?; About this book; Notes; The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford; 2. Museums; Variety in museums; Museums, collections, and economics; Professional attitudes; Conclusions; Notes; 3. Collections; The nature of collections; Practical aspects; Using functional objects; Collections and politics; Collections and cultures; Collections and conflicts; Collections: the dark side; Conclusions; Notes; 4. Collections for research
- What research?Who researches?; What do researchers require?; Case study: archaeological collections of the; Museum of London Collections researched and less researched; Discussion; Conclusions; Notes; 5. Collections for ongoing learning; About learning; How people think; Object-based learning: some examples; What do students learn?; Museums, collections, and education: the potential; Universities and museums; Conclusions; Notes; Flea Market; 6. Collections, memory, and identity; Concepts of memory and identity; Museums and memory; Identities; Memory in the case of military museums
- Discussion: implicationsConclusions; Notes; 7. Collections and creativity; Theories of creativity; The art of the collection; Stories from collections; Collections, music, and sound; Collections as places; Inspiration for the public; Discussion; Conclusions; Notes; Beowulf: the treasure and the dragon; 8. Collections for enjoyment; How and what we enjoy; Enjoying stored collections; Personal visits; People using collections; Conclusions; Notes; 9. Collections and digitization; Museum futures; Digital futures; Using digital technologies, using collections; Discussion; Conclusions; Notes
- 10. Collections and valuesIntroduction; Culture and economics; Changes in value; Measuring cultural value; Museums and values; Perspectives on value; Conclusions; Notes; Poetry; 11. Piecing together the fragments; Museums and collections in the future; What can museums do?; A new focus on collections; Is there a solution?; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgements; Research Method; Copyright and permissions; Index