Title & Author:

Museum storage and meaning : tales from the crypt / edited by Mirjam Brusius and Kavita Singh.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Description:

xv, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge research in museum studies ; 14

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Performances of museum storage / James Delbourgo -- Visible storage, visible labour? / Nicky Reeves -- Serendipity, transparency, and wonder: the value of visitable storage / Sarah Bond -- Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian, in conversation with Mirjam Brusius -- To store is to save: Kenneth C. Murray and the founding of the Nigerian Museum, Lagos / Amanda H. Hellman -- Essential cure for dying museums: Clarence S. Stein and study-storage / Belinda Nemec -- Storage and display: third world perspectives and practices / Upinder Singh -- Home from home: memory and history, families and museums / Claire Warrior -- Home storage: the treatments of domestic collections of aeronautica by the Science Museum and the National Air and Space Museum / Caitlin Doherty -- Preserving preservation: maintaining meaning in museum storage / Wendy M.K. Shaw -- Hidden histories: museum taxidermy rediscovered / John Sanders -- Animals went in two by two: shifts in the classification and display of taxidermy in the seen and unseen spaces of public museums / Ebony Andrews -- Museum utopia for the twenty-first century: an odd and impractical little dream / Michael Conforti -- Upstairs, downstairs. the National Gallery's dual collections / Susanna Avery Quash and Alan Crookham -- Double life of "Oriental" textiles at the Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens: interpreting storage and displayability of Ottoman fabrics in 20th century Greece / Elena Papastavrou and Nikolaos Vryzidis -- Lying in wait: inertia and latency in the collection / Alice Stevenson -- Clothing, care and compromise: a case study of the storage of the Hodson Shop collection, 1983-2015 / Jenny Gilbert-Evans -- Loose bodies: reserve collections, curatorial reservations, and the Ancient Egyptian dead / Christina Riggs -- Secret art of the Bambui Royal Treasury, Western Grassfield, Cameroon / Mathias Alubafi Fubah -- Remnants of past lives: storing archaeological stuff / Morag M. Kersel.

Summary:

"This book explores issues including the relationship between storage and canonization, the politics of collecting, the use of museum storage as a form of censorship"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781138065970 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1138065978 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780367884086 (paperback)
0367884089 (paperback)
(electronic book)
9781315159393

Subject:

Museums Collection management.
Museum storage facilities.
Museums organization & administration
Information Storage and Retrieval
Musées Gestion des collections.
Musées Réserves.
collections management.
Libraries and Museums.

Added entries:

Brusius, Mirjam, editor.
Singh, Kavita, editor.
Routledge research in museum studies ; 14.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322499
Call No.: 322499
Copy: 1
Status: Available