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Museums and the future of collecting
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Details
- Creator
- edited by Simon J. Knell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Second edition
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations, tables
- ISBNs
- 9781351916424, 1351916424, 9781138452787, 1138452785, 9781315248561, 1315248565, 0754630056, 1351916432
- OCLC
- ocn975224608, ocn988386901
- "Papers originally presented at a conference organised by the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester."--T.p. verso.
- First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.
- 1. Altered values : searching for a new collecting / Simon Knell -- 2. Collections and collecting / Susan Pearce -- 3. Museums without collections : museum philosophy in West Africa / Malcolm McLeod -- 4. The future of collecting : lessons from the past / Richard Dunn -- 5. The Ashmolean Musuem : a case study of eighteenth-century collecting / Patricia Kell -- 6. The cartographies of collecting / Rebecca Duclos -- 7. From curio to cultural document / Barbara Lawson -- 8. Contemporary popular collecting / Paul Martin -- 9. Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion / Gaynor Kavanagh -- 10. Collecting in time of war / Zarka Vujic -- 11. The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa / Graham Dominy -- 12. Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from 'deviant' groups / Nicola Clayton -- 13. All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils / John Martin -- 14. What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland / Michael Taylor -- 15. Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork / Janet Owen -- 16. Collecting : reclaiming the art, systematising the technique / Linda Young -- 17. Samdok : tools to make the world visible / Anna Steen -- 18. Professionalising collecting / Barbro Bursell -- 19. Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums / Maria Garcia, Carmen Chinea and Jose Farina -- 20. Towards a national collection strategy : reviewing existing holdings / Jean-Marc Gagnon and Gerald Fitzgerald -- 21. Ranking collections / Martin Wickham -- 22. Deaccessioning as a collections management tool / Patricia Ainslie -- 23. Collecting live performance / James Fowler -- 24. Redefining collecting / Tomislav Sola