Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice (ePub)
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There is a common misconception that collections management in museums is a set of rote procedures or technical practices that follow universal standards of best practice. This volume recognises collections management as a political, critical and social project, involving considerable intellectual labour that often goes unacknowledged within institutions and in the fields of museum and heritage studies.
Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice brings into focus the knowledges, value systems, ethics and workplace pragmatics that are foundational for this work. Rather than engaging solely with cultural modifications, such as Indigenous care practices, the book presents local knowledge of place and material which is relevant to how collections are managed and cared for worldwide. Through discussion of varied collection types, management activities and professional roles, contributors develop a contextualised reflexive practice for how core collections management standards are conceptualised, negotiated and enacted. Chapters span national museums in Brazil and Uganda to community-led heritage work in Malaysia and Canada; they explore complexities of numbering, digitization and description alongside the realities of climate change, global pandemics and natural disasters. The book offers a new definition of collections management, travelling from what is done to care for collections, to what is done to care for collections and their users. Rather than 'use' being an end goal, it emerges as a starting point to rethink collections work.
Alice Stevenson is a Professor of Museum Archaeology at University College London's Institute of Archaeology.
- 2024, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Cara Krmpotich, Alice Stevenson
- Verlag: UCL Press
- ISBN-10: 1800087071
- ISBN-13: 9781800087071
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.07.2024
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