Inside the lost museum : curating, past and present /

For more than two centuries museums have preserved art, artifacts, and natural specimens, engaged and educated the public, and provided resources for research in areas from art history to zoology. Inside the Lost Museum explains the work of museums--collecting, preserving, displaying, and using coll...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lubar, Steven D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Jenks Museum of Natural History and Anthropology.
Jenks Museum of Natural History and Anthropology
Museum techniques.
Curatorship.
Muséologie.
Conservation.
museology.
conservation (discipline)
preserving.
conservation (process)
curating.
preservation (function)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Museum Administration & Museology.
REFERENCE > General.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
ART / Museum Studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Explore
  • Part I. Collect: Why collect?
  • Collectable
  • Acquisitions
  • In the field
  • Who collects?
  • Part II. Preserve: Into the storeroom
  • Paperwork
  • The ethics of objects
  • Part III. Display: Objects, stories and visitors
  • Objects on display
  • Organizations and juxtapositions
  • Explanations and encounters
  • Setting the scene
  • Turned inside out: visible storage
  • Part IV. Use: What use is a museum?
  • Museums make communities
  • Learning from things
  • Teaching with things
  • The promise of museums
  • Coda: Consider.

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