Active Collections

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvElizabeth Wood,Rainey Tisdale,Trevor Jones

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In recent years, many museums have implemented sweeping changes in how they engage audiences. However, changes to the field’s approaches to collections stewardship have come much more slowly. Active Collections critically examines existing approaches to museum collections and explores practical, yet radical, ways that museums can better manage their collections to actively advance their missions.Approaching the question of modern museum collection stewardship from a position of "tough love," the authors argue that the museum field risks being constrained by rigid ways of thinking about objects. Examining the field’s relationship to objects, artifacts, and specimens, the volume explores the question of stewardship through the dissection of a broad range of issues, including questions of "quality over quantity," emotional attachment, dispassionate cataloging, and cognitive biases in curatorship. The essays look to insights from fields as diverse as forest management, library science, and the psychology of compulsive hoarding, to inform and innovate collection practices. Essay contributions come from both experienced museum professionals and scholars from disciplines as diverse as psychology, education, and history. The result is a critical exploration that makes the book essential reading for museum professionals, as well as those in training.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-11-07
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt272 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor168
FörlagLeft Coast Press Inc
ISBN9781629585239

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Elizabeth Wood is Professor of museum studies, and public scholar of museums, families, and learning at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA. Rainey Tisdale is an independent curator who leads for change on field-wide issues including place-based interpretation, collections stewardship, creative practice, and museums and well-being.Trevor Jones is Director and CEO of the Nebraska State Historical Society, USA.

Foreword Jim VaughnIntroduction Trevor Jones, Rainey Tisdale, Elizabeth WoodA Manifesto for Active History Museum Collections Trevor Jones & Rainey TisdaleSection 1: Conceptual Frameworks1.Ten Principles for an Anti-Racist, Anti-Orientalist, Activist Approach to Collections Masum Momaya2. Objects or People? Rainey TisdaleInterlude: Sensory Deprivation: A Short Play Based on a Real-Life Scenario Elizabeth Wood3. Museum Collections and Public Feelings Modupe LabodeInterlude: What Happens When Audiences “Talk” To Objects? Gabriel Taylor4. Hoarding and Museum Collections: Conceptual Similarities and Differences Gail Steketee5. The Vital Museum Collection Elizabeth Wood6. Four Forceful Phrases: An Archival Change Agent Muses on Museology Mark GreeneInterlude: We are Collecting Empty Boxes? Elizabeth Wood, with Kayla Al Ameri7. Rethinking Museum Collections in a Troubled World Robert R. JanesInterlude: Activate Your Object: 51 Questions to Reveal Inactivity Katherine RieckSection II: New Ideas and Tools for Change8. Tier your Collections: A Practical Tool for Making Clear Decisions in Collections Management Trevor Jones9. #Meaning: Cataloging Active Collections Paul BourcierInterlude: Question the Database! Vickie Stone10. Practical Strategies for Addressing Hoarding in Collections Gail SteketeeInterlude: Tidying Up Museum Collections Anne Jordan11. Things in Flux: Collecting in the Constructivist Museum Benjamin FileneInterlude: A (Practical) Inspiration: Do You Know What It Costs You to Collect? Trevor Jones12. Reworking Collections Management Practices for How We Must Live Now: An Archival Case Study Susan M. Irwin and Linda A. Whitaker13. Object Reincarnation: Imagining a Future Outside the Permanent Collection Kate BowellEpilogue: Imagine with Us Rainey Tisdale