Museums and the Future of Collecting

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ISBN 10: 0754630056 / ISBN 13: 9780754630050

Verlag: -, 2004

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Inhaltsangabe:

Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. Museums and the Future of Collecting 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. 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jerry C. Whitaker

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Museums and the Future of Collecting
Verlag: -
Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: 2. Auflage