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Fragments of the world : uses of museum collections /
Explores why museum collections are kept and how they can be best put to use using case studies from around the globe.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Fragments of the World
- Contents
- Preface
- List of figures
- Introduction
- Museum directions and perceptions
- Concerns articulated
- Why the problem?
- Too much stuff?
- About this book
- Notes
- The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford
- Museums
- Variety in museums
- Museums, collections, and economics
- Professional attitudes
- Conclusions
- Notes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Collections, memory, and identity
- Concepts of memory and identity
- Museums and memory
- Identities
- Memory in the case of military museums
- Discussion: implications
- Conclusions
- Notes
- 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
- Collections for enjoyment
- How and what we enjoy
- Enjoying stored collections
- Personal visits
- People using collections
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Collections and digitization
- Museum futures
- Digital futures
- Using digital technologies, using collections
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Collections and values
- Introduction
- Culture and economics
- Changes in value
- Measuring cultural value
- Museums and values
- Perspectives on value
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Poetry
- 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
- Interviews and visits
- Copyright and permissions
- Quotations
- Images
- Index
- Last Page.