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Collections management as a critical museum practice / edited by Cara Krmpotich and Alice Stevenson
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: London : UCL Press, 2024Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9781800087040
- 9781800087071
- 069/.5 23/eng/20240920
- AM133
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Summary: Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice brings into focus the knowledges, value systems, ethics and workplace pragmatics that are the foundation of collections management. The book creates a critical dialogue about the underlying philosophies, values and ethics that determine what are and what might be acceptable collections practicesPPN: PPN: 1916208193Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Part I, Making and unmaking museum collections. 1 Documenting COVID-19: sensitivity, care, collaboration ; 2 A failure of care: unsettling traditional archival practices ; 3 Deciding whether and how to build a digital archive: lessons from the Jackson Park Project ; 4 Collecting the sacred: the transition of diasporic objects in between museum regimes ; 5 Bane and boon: critical contexts of object marking ; 6 Humanising collections disposal ; Part I Response: In a multiverse of timelines and possibilities... -- Part II, A universal approach? Accessing, handling and enlivening collections. 7 Challenging ableism: including non-normative bodies and practices in collections care ; 8 Playing the odds: the fine line between keeping an object safe and making it accessible ; 9 Managing a working collection: the Historic Furniture and Decorative Arts Collection at the Palace of Westminster ; 10 Gloves in the twenty-first century: beyond the pandemic ; 11 A healthy ageing approach to collections care ; Part II response: Claim what is stored here -- Part 3, Community brilliance in shaping collections management. 12 On language, access and practitioners: beginning a conversation on decolonising and indigenising the care of kapa collections at Bishop Museum ; 13 Shifting organisational culture through repatriation policy ; 14 Kaitiakitanga: Māori collection management in Aotearoa New Zealand ; 15 Reconciling with ourselves: how do we decolonise collections management practices in museum spaces and systems? ; 16 Handling collections in the museum against cultural ethics ; 17 Decolonising collection management in an indigenous ritual house in Malaysia ; Part III Response: 'Collections should reflect the relationships we hold' -- Part IV, Collection management's publics. 18 Decolonising the registration and documentation of the Dutch ethnographic collection ; 19 Rebuilding collection infrastructure: thinking beyond best practice collection care ; 20 Methodologies for international access and collaborative collections research in museums: challenges and opportunities ; 21 Public art and artefacts -- who cares: caring for art and artefacts in the public realm; ethical considerations ; Part IV Response: Letting people in, letting objects out: countering the dislocations of collections management practice -- Part V, The ethics of sustainability, preservation and stewardship in collections care. 22 Eastern Mediterranean perspectives on eco-conscious, resilient and sustainable preservation of museum collections and heritage sites in Greece ; 23 Object stories in support of sustainable futures: tackling climate change at the Australian Museum ; 24 Making and stewarding digital collections: case studies and concerns ; 25 Responses in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake: a conversation ; Part V Response: The best practice of sustainability and the sustainability of best practices ; 26 Conclusion.
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