Museum Storage and Meaning : Tales from the Crypt
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9781138065970
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สถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติ
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Abstract
Beyond their often beautiful exhibition halls, many museums contain vast, hidden spaces in which objects may be stored, conserved, or processed. Museums can also include unseen archives, study rooms, and libraries which are inaccessible to the public. This collection of essays focuses on this domain, an area that has hitherto received little attention. Divided into four sections, the book critically examines the physical space of museum storage areas, the fluctuating historical fortunes of exhibits, the growing phenomenon of publicly visible storage, and the politics of objects deemed worthy of collection but unsuitable for display.
Table of contents
List of figures Notes or contributors
1.Introduction
MIRJAM BRUSIUS AND K A VITA SINGH
PART I
Visible and visitable storage
2.Performances of museum storage
JAMES DELBOUR GO
3.Visible storage, visible labour?
NICKY REEVES
4.Serendipity, transparency, and wonder: the value of visitable storage
SARAH BOND
5.Richard Ovenden, Bodley 's Librarian, in conversation with Miriam Brusius
INTERVIEW
6.To store is to save: Kenneth C. Murray and the founding of the Nigerian Museum, Lagos
AMANDA H. HELL MAN
PART II
Spaces of storage, beyond display
7.Essential cure for dying museums: Clarence S. Stein and study-storage
BELINDA NEMEC
8.'Storage' and 'display': third world perspectives and practices
UPINDER SINGH
9.Home from home: memory and history, families and museums
CLAIRE WARRIOR
10.Home storage: the treatments of domestic collections of acronautica by the Science Museum and the National Air and Space Museum
CAITLIN DOHERTY
11.Preserving preservation: maintaining meaning in museum storage
WENDY M.K. SHAW
PART III
In and out of view: changing fortunes of objects
12.Hidden histories: museum taxidermy rediscovered
JOHN M. SANDERS
13.The 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
14.Museum utopia for the twenty-first century: an 'odd and impractical little dream
MICHAEL CONFORTI
15.Upstairs, downstairs: the National Gallerys dual collections
SUSANNA AVERY-QUASH AND ALAN CROOKHAM
16.The double life of 'oriental' textiles at the Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens: interpreting the storage and displayability of Ottoman fabrics in twentieth-century Greece
NIKOLAOS VRYZIDIS AND ELENA PAPASTAVROU
PART IV
Politics of awkwardness, anxiety and taboo
17.Lying in wait: inertia and latency in the collection
ALICE STEVENS ON
18.Clothing care and compromise: a case study of the storage of the Hodson Shop Collection, 1983-2015
JENNY GILBERT-EVANS
19.Loose bodies: reserve collections, curatorial reservations, and the ancient Egyptian dead
CHRISTINA RIGGS
20.The secret art of the Bambui Royal Treasury, Western Grassfields, Cameroon
MATHIAS ALUBAFI FUBAH
21.Remnants of past lives-storing archaeological stuff
MORAG M. KERSEL
Index