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      Museums and the Future of Collecting
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      Museums and the Future of Collecting book

      Edited BySimon J. Knell
      Edition 2nd Edition
      First Published 2004
      eBook Published 2 January 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315248561
      Pages 280
      eBook ISBN 9781315248561
      Subjects Humanities, Museum and Heritage Studies
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      Knell, S.J. (Ed.). (2004). Museums and the Future of Collecting (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315248561

      ABSTRACT

      Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. This book exposes the many meanings of collections, the different perspectives taken by different cultures, and the institutional response to the collecting problem. One major concern is omission, whether this be determined by politics, professional ethics, the law or social agenda. How did curators collect during the war in Croatia? What were the problems of trying to collect the ’old’ South Africa when the new one was born? Can museums collect from groups which seem to ’deviate’ from society’s norms? How has the function of museums affected the practices of international trade? Can museums collect successfully if collecting agenda are being set externally? Museums and the Future of Collecting encourages museums to move away from the collecting of isolated tokens; to move beyond the collecting policy and to understand more clearly the intellectual function of what they do. Here examples are given from Australia, Sweden, Canada, Spain, Britain and Croatia which provide this intellectual understanding and many practical tools for evaluating a future collecting strategy.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|46 pages

      Altered values: searching for a new collecting

      chapter 2|5 pages

      Collections and collecting

      chapter 3|10 pages

      Museums without collections: museum philosophy in West Africa

      chapter 4|10 pages

      The future of collecting: lessons from the past

      chapter 5|12 pages

      The Ashmolean Museum: a case study of eighteenth-century collecting

      chapter 6|18 pages

      The cartographies of collecting

      chapter 7|11 pages

      From curio to cultural document

      chapter 8|5 pages

      Contemporary popular collecting

      chapter 9|10 pages

      Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion

      chapter 10|7 pages

      Collecting in time of war

      chapter 11|11 pages

      The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa

      chapter 12|9 pages

      Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from 'deviant' groups

      chapter 13|10 pages

      All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils

      chapter 14|14 pages

      What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland

      chapter 15|6 pages

      Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork

      chapter 16|11 pages

      Collecting: reclaiming the art, systematising the technique

      chapter 17|8 pages

      Samdok: tools to make the world visible

      chapter 18|7 pages

      Professionalising collecting

      chapter 19|4 pages

      Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums

      chapter 20|7 pages

      Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings

      chapter 21|13 pages

      Ranking collections

      chapter 22|7 pages

      Deaccessioning as a collections management tool

      chapter 23|8 pages

      Collecting live performance

      chapter 24|11 pages

      Redefining collecting

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