Museums as Cultures of Copies

Brita Brenna is Professor of Museology and Head of Centre for Museum Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.Hans Dam Christensen is Professor of Cultural Communication at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Olav Hamran is Head of Research and Development, Arts Council Norway.

• Museums as cultures of copiesIntroductionBrita Brenna, Hans Dam Christensen, Olav HamranSection I: ModelsSection 1 Introduction Chapter 1 - The Art and Science of Replication. Copies and Copying in the Multi-Disciplinary MuseumSamuel J.M.M. Alberti, Alice Blackwell, Peter Davidson, Martin Goldberg and Geoffrey N. SwinneyChapter 2 - Knowing with modelsBrita BrennaChapter 3 - Documenting, educating, recapturing – copying practices at the Norwegian Technical MuseumOlav HamranChapter 4 - Mostly making models: The Scientific Use of Natural Heritage CollectionsHenry McGhieSection II: Mobility and instabilitySection II IntroductionChapter 5 - Lost Continents, Projective ObjectsMari LendingChapter 6 - Turkish Neo-Ottoman memory culture and the problems of copying the past Gönül Bozoğlu and Christopher WhiteheadChapter 7 - Replica Knowledge: Travelling ThronesFelix Sattler & Anna Simandiraki-GrimshawChapter 8 - Looking for originals in a museum of copies? The ambivalence of the Thorvaldsens MuseumHans Dam ChristensenChapter 9 - Copying as Museum Branding: Souvenirs with Edvard Munch’s Bedspread PatternJoanna IranowskaSection III: Body, Life and deathSection III Introduction Chapter 10 - Ethnographic Mannequins: Copying as artefactualization of human differenceAnne Folke HenningsenChapter 11 - Constructing Museum Nature: Photography and Specimens in Natural History Museums around 1900Liv Emma ThorsenChapter 12 - Faces of death. Death masks in the museum Ole Marius HyllandSection IV: Text as/of thingSection IV Introduction Chapter 13 - Commonplaces, copies, and copiousness Anne EriksenChapter 14 - The proof of the original is in the copying: Heavenly chain lettersSiv Frøydis BergChapter 15 - Documenting museum objects: A practice of copying and a ‘copious’ practice?Janne Werner OlsrudChapter 16 - Breaking the frames? The creation of digital curatorial agency at Swedish cultural historical museums Bodil AxelssonChapter 17 - Towards a Future Museum of CopyingMarcus Boon

"The variety of chapters from different times, places and disciplines adds something new, relevant and important to the ongoing discussion of the credibility of the museum as a modern institution within museum studies and the heritage field more broadly.[...] it achieves its objectives by extending understanding and appreciation of the culture of copies in museums while providing a rich resource that scholars and practitioners can use as a springboard for further research."-Gitte Westergaard, PhD candidate in the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages at the University of Stavanger