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Curatopia: museums and the future of curatorship

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"What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by considering the c…

"What can we learn about nationalism by looking at a country's cultural institutions? How do the history and culture of particular cities help explain how museums represent diversity? Artifacts and Allegiances takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums…

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The private collector's museum: public good versus private gain

by Walker, Georgina S.

fromRoutledge Research in Museum Studies

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The Private Collector's Museum connects the rising popularity of private museums with evolving models of collecting and philanthropy, and new inter-relationships between private and public space. It examines how contemporary collectors construct museums to frame themselves as cu…

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Curatorial activism: towards an ethics of curating

by Lippard, Lucy R., Reilly, Maura

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Current art world statistics demonstrate that the fight for gender and race equality in the art world is far from over: only sixteen percent of this year's Venice Biennale artists were female; only fourteen percent of the work displayed at MoMA in 2016 was by nonwhite artists; o…

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Presidential libraries and museums

by Nappo, Christian A.

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This book is a ready-reference source giving readers quick and reliable information about all 26 presidential libraries and museums. Each entry contains: Location information and history Information about the endowments Information about opening hours, the number of visitors, an…

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Presidential libraries and museums

by Nappo, Christian A.

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This book is a ready-reference source giving readers quick and reliable information about all 26 presidential libraries and museums. Each entry contains: Location information and history Information about the endowments Information about opening hours, the number of visitors, an…

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Artefacts of encounter: Cook's voyages, colonial collecting and museum hi…

by Owen, Gwil, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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The Pacific artefacts and works of art collected during the three voyages of Captain James Cook and the navigators, traders and missionaries who followed him are of foundational importance for the study of art and culture in Oceania. These collections are representative not only…

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Artefacts of encounter: Cook's voyages, colonial collecting and museum hi…

by Owen, Gwil, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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The Pacific artefacts and works of art collected during the three voyages of Captain James Cook and the navigators, traders and missionaries who followed him are of foundational importance for the study of art and culture in Oceania. These collections are representative not only…

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Artefacts of encounter: Cook's voyages, colonial collecting and museum hi…

by Owen, Gwil, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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The Pacific artefacts and works of art collected during the three voyages of Captain James Cook and the navigators, traders and missionaries who followed him are of foundational importance for the study of art and culture in Oceania. These collections are representative not only…

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Museums, moralities and human rights

by Sandell, Richard

fromMuseum meanings

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Prologue -- Progress and protest -- "I am he that aches with love"--Coming out stories -- Taking sides -- Museums and the transgender tipping point -- Museum work as human rights work -- Appendix 1 "This book explores how museums, galleries and heritage sites of all kinds--thro…

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Keeping their marbles: how the treasures of the past ended up in museums…

by Jenkins, Tiffany

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"The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display…

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The curation and care of museum collections

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Museum curators enter the profession with a specialist subject qualification and yet at some point in their career, many curators find themselves in charge of a range of collections outside of their expert knowledge. Interpreting, curating and caring for mixed collections demand…

This work focuses on the influence exerted by British, US, and Australian governments and museums on fashioning international law and museum policy in response to restitution claims. It engages one of the most challenging issues facing museum professionals, international lawyers…

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International law, museums and the return of cultural objects

by Vrdoljak, Ana Filipa

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This work focuses on the influence exerted by British, US, and Australian governments and museums on fashioning international law and museum policy in response to restitution claims. It engages one of the most challenging issues facing museum professionals, international lawyers…