Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural Hist…
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural Hist…
"How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying, and cataloguing--hardened into accepted categories, naming conventions, and t…
How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying, and cataloguing--hardened into accepted categories, naming conventions, and tr…
"How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying, and cataloguing--hardened into accepted categories, naming conventions, and t…
In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. "Indian hobbyists" dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with teepees…
Conservation scientists in museums and galleries have a clear understanding of the damage that light can inflict on an object, but what of the designers that create exhibitions to display these precious items? Light for Arts Sake provides a basis for a level of professional expe…
Die Publikation reflektiert Aufgaben, Strategien und Handlungsformen von Museen und Ausstellungen aus der Perspektive der postkolonialen Museologie sowie der kritischen Migrations- und Regimeforschung. Die kritische Analyse der existierenden Ansätze soll Kuratieren als antirassi…
In Art of Memories, Vincent Antonin Lépinay documents the Hermitage's curatorial practices in an innovative consideration of the museum as a cultural laboratory. Lépinay analyzes the tensions between the museum as a space of exploration of the collections and as a culture heavil…
In Art of Memories, Vincent Antonin Lépinay documents the Hermitage's curatorial practices in an innovative consideration of the museum as a cultural laboratory. Lépinay analyzes the tensions between the museum as a space of exploration of the collections and as a culture heavil…
Mediating Memories of the Mao Era -- Blood Testaments -- Surveillance Files -- Utopian Photographs -- Foreign Lenses -- Factory Rubble -- Museums and Memorials -- Notes for Future Curators. "Utopian ruins imagines a memorial museum for the Mao era. Such a museum would need to c…
In Utopian Ruins Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and cataclysmic reverberations. Li proposes a critical framework for understanding the documentat…
In Utopian Ruins Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and cataclysmic reverberations. Li proposes a critical framework for understanding the documentat…
"Utopian ruins imagines a memorial museum for the Mao era. Such a museum would need to capture both the utopian possibility and the often-catastrophic histories of the period, not an easy task since most accounts are organized around one point of view or the other. The museum wo…
by Obrist, Hans Ulrich, Bovier, Lionel
fromDocuments (Zurich, Switzerland)
"Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix aims to change the discourse about museums from the inside out, proposing a new, "panarchic"--Nonhierarchical, adaptive, community-oriented--vision for museum practice and audience …
"This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members whic…
