Collections Management As Critical Museum Practice

• Autore: Krmpotich Cara Ann <1978->
• Pubblicazione: London : , : UCL Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (605 pages)
• Disciplina: 069.5
• Soggetto topico: Museums - Collection management; Decolonization
• Altri autori: StevensonAlice
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Collections Management is/as Critical Practice -- 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 III: 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’
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 practices.
• Titolo autorizzato: Collections Management As Critical Museum Practice
• ISBN: 9781800087071; 1800087071
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910875600503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II