Exploring emotion, care, and enthusiasm in "unloved" museum collections /

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Millions of items are held in museum collections around the world but many museums have very few visitors to their stored collections. These stored objects are certainly not neglected by their professional custodians, and they are loved with a great intensity by some curators and enthusiasts. Howeve...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Woodham, Anna (Éditeur intellectuel), Smith, Rhianedd, 1979- (Éditeur intellectuel), Hess, Alison (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2020]
Collection:Collection development, cultural heritage, and digital humanities.
Sujets:
Museums > Collection management.
Musées > Gestion des collections.
collections management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Museum Administration & Museology.
Museums > Collection management
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Unlocking the Meanings of Collections: Expertise, Care, and the Science Museum's Locks and Fastenings Collection
  • Chapter 2. "A Hawk from a Handsaw": Investigating Enthusiasm for Rural Hand Tools
  • Chapter 3. What's in a Name? The Ethics of Care and an "Unloved" Collection
  • Chapter 4. "Storehouses of Unimagined Treasures": Delightful Rummaging and Artists' Responses to "Unloved" Collections
  • Chapter 5. No Data, No Use? Changing Use and Valuation of Natural History Collections
  • Chapter 6. Getting to Grips with Medical Handling Collections: Medical Memories, Specialist Knowledge, and Community Engagement around "Unloved" Objects
  • Chapter 7. Emotions and Lost Objects
  • Chapter 8. Care- Full Academic Labour: Encountering Care in Collections- Based Research
  • Volume Conclusion: How to Put a Little Love in Your Stored Collection
  • Index

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