Museum Storage and Meaning: Tales from the Crypt

ISBN-13: 9780367884086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 300 str.

Mirjam Brusius; Kavita Singh

Opis

This collection of essays focuses on the rarely studied hidden spaces in museums and explores issues such as the relationship between storage and canonization, the politics of collecting, the use of museum storage as a form of censorship, the architectural character of storage space, and the economic and epistemic value of museum objec

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Performances of Museum Storage  3. Visible storage, visible labour?  4. Serendipity, Transparency, and Wonder: The Value of Visitable Storage  5. Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian, in conversation with Mirjam Brusius  6. To Store is to Save: Kenneth C. Murray and the founding of the Nigerian Museum, Lagos  7. “Essential Cure for Dying Museums”: Clarence S. Stein and Study-storage  8. ‘Storage’ and ‘Display’: Local Museum Practices in India  9. Home from Homes: The Movement of Things from Families to Museums  10. Home Storage: The Reception and Treatment of Domestic Collections of Aeronautica by the Science Museum and the National Air and Space Museum  11. Preserving Preservation. Maintaining Meaning in Museum Storage  12. Hidden Histories: Museum Taxidermy Rediscovered  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  14. Storage and Sharing: A Suggestion for the Future of Collections of forgeries'  15. Upstairs, Downstairs. The National Gallery's dual collections  16. The double life of ‘Oriental’ textiles at the Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens: interpreting storage and displayability of Ottoman silks in 20th century Greece  17. Lying in wait: inertia and latency in the collection  18. Clothing, Care and Compromise: A Case Study of the Storage of the Hodson Shop Collection, 1983-2015  19. Loose Bodies: Reserve Collections, Curatorial Reserva

O autorze

Mirjam Brusius is a research fellow at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford, UK

Kavita Singh is a Professor in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India