Active collections

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Active collections

edited by Elizabeth Wood, Rainey Tisdale and Trevor Jones

Routledge, 2018

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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In recent years, many museums have implemented sweeping changes in how they engage audiences. However, changes to the field's approaches to collections stewardship have come much more slowly. Active Collections critically examines existing approaches to museum collections and explores practical, yet radical, ways that museums can better manage their collections to actively advance their missions. Approaching the question of modern museum collection stewardship from a position of "tough love," the authors argue that the museum field risks being constrained by rigid ways of thinking about objects. Examining the field's relationship to objects, artifacts, and specimens, the volume explores the question of stewardship through the dissection of a broad range of issues, including questions of "quality over quantity," emotional attachment, dispassionate cataloging, and cognitive biases in curatorship. The essays look to insights from fields as diverse as forest management, library science, and the psychology of compulsive hoarding, to inform and innovate collection practices. Essay contributions come from both experienced museum professionals and scholars from disciplines as diverse as psychology, education, and history. The result is a critical exploration that makes the book essential reading for museum professionals, as well as those in training.

目次

Foreword Jim Vaughn Introduction Trevor Jones, Rainey Tisdale, Elizabeth Wood A Manifesto for Active History Museum Collections Trevor Jones & Rainey Tisdale Section 1: Conceptual Frameworks 1.Ten Principles for an Anti-Racist, Anti-Orientalist, Activist Approach to Collections Masum Momaya 2. Objects or People? Rainey Tisdale Interlude: Sensory Deprivation: A Short Play Based on a Real-Life Scenario Elizabeth Wood 3. Museum Collections and Public Feelings Modupe Labode Interlude: What Happens When Audiences "Talk" To Objects? Gabriel Taylor 4. Hoarding and Museum Collections: Conceptual Similarities and Differences Gail Steketee 5. The Vital Museum Collection Elizabeth Wood 6. Four Forceful Phrases: An Archival Change Agent Muses on Museology Mark Greene Interlude: We are Collecting Empty Boxes? Elizabeth Wood, with Kayla Al Ameri 7. Rethinking Museum Collections in a Troubled World Robert R. Janes Interlude: Activate Your Object: 51 Questions to Reveal Inactivity Katherine Rieck Section II: New Ideas and Tools for Change 8. Tier your Collections: A Practical Tool for Making Clear Decisions in Collections Management Trevor Jones 9. #Meaning: Cataloging Active Collections Paul Bourcier Interlude: Question the Database! Vickie Stone 10. Practical Strategies for Addressing Hoarding in Collections Gail Steketee Interlude: Tidying Up Museum Collections Anne Jordan 11. Things in Flux: Collecting in the Constructivist Museum Benjamin Filene Interlude: A (Practical) Inspiration: Do You Know What It Costs You to Collect? Trevor Jones 12. Reworking Collections Management Practices for How We Must Live Now: An Archival Case Study Susan M. Irwin and Linda A. Whitaker 13. Object Reincarnation: Imagining a Future Outside the Permanent Collection Kate Bowell Epilogue: Imagine with Us Rainey Tisdale

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB31650588
  • ISBN
    • 9781629585239
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xvii, 168 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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