Book

Museums and the future of collecting

by  Simon J Knell

Table Of Contents

  • Altered values: searching for a new collecting
  • Collections and collecting
  • Museums without collections: museum philosophy in West Africa
  • The future of collecting: lessons from the past
  • The ashmolean museum: a case study of eighteenth-century collecting
  • The cartographies of collecting
  • From curio to cultural document
  • Contemporary popular collecting
  • Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion
  • Collecting in time of war
  • The politics of museum collecting in the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ South Africa
  • Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from ‘deviant’ groups
  • All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils
  • What is in a ‘national’ museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the national museums of Scotland
  • Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork
  • Collecting: reclaiming the art, systematizing the technique
  • Samdok: tool to make the world visible
  • Professionalising collecting
  • Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums
  • Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings
  • Ranking collections
  • Deaccessioning as a collections management tool
  • Collecting live performance
  • Redefining collecting

Subject

Acquisitions / Congresses / Museums

Details

Published Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2004,
Language English
Material vii, 266 p.
ISBN 0754630056
Location
AM 135 M986 2004
TCDC Bangkok - General Collection

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