How to care for, store, display and interpret human remains, and issues of their ownership, are contentious questions, ones that need to be answered with care and due consideration. This book offers a systematic overview of the responses made by museums and other repositories in…
Renzo Piano Museums presents a portfolio of eighteen museum projects: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Frankrig; Alexander Calder Retrospevtive Exhibition, Torino, Italien; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cite Internationale, Lyon, Frankrig, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA,…
PART I: FUNDAMENTALS Chapter 1: Mapping the Preservation Landscape for the Twenty-first Century Chapter 2: Preservation Principles Chapter 3: Managing Preservation: Policy, Assessment, Planning Chapter 4: Security and Disaster Planning PART II: COLLECTIONS Chapter 5: Artifacts a…
Millions of items are held in museum collections around the world but many museums have very few visitors to their stored collections. These stored objects are certainly not neglected by their professional custodians, and they are loved with a great intensity by some curators an…
