his exhibition at the historic Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool, comprises almost entirely of art works in the collection of Theresa Roberts, who is founder and owner of the Jamaica Patty Co. restaurant, based in Covent Garden, London.Theresa Roberts was born in Jamaica to parents who emigrated to the United Kingdom as part of the ‘Windrush Generation’: those who were invited by Briti…
Professionals working with cultural heritage preservation have had to respond to difficult challenges in the last few decades, mainly brought about by globalisation, armed conflicts, natural disasters and the use of heritage as an ultimate resource to redress injustices of the past. The topics and experiences discussed in this book demonstrate that conservators may …
This book is grounded in the belief that there is a need to talk more about mental health from the perspective of both historical and current issues and practices. This is what Catharine Coleborne, internationally renowned scholar in the field of mad studies and histories of mental health and psychiatry, also maintains in her most recent book Why Talk About Madness (2020). Here, Coleborn…
This inventory is the first comprehensive account of objects held by the Sri Ksetra Museum, Hmawza. It is the result of a collaborative project that started in 2014 with Museum and the Field School of Archaeology (FSOA) staff. The aims of the project were to catalogue the Pyu material and develop staff skills in museum methods. At first the goal was to document works on display in the museum, a…
The Qing, the last dynasty of the Chinese imperium, ruled for over 260 years (1644-1911). At the end of the 19th century it occupied a territory of roughly 13 million square kilometres and claimed sovereignty over more than 400 million people. One of the questions this book examines is how – on a sheer logistical level – was a complex empire of this size governed before the age of telegrams…
Few visitors to art museums walk in expecting to find thirtyplus middle school students acting as their own docents, leading their peers through discussions of what they see and wonder about in works of art from abstract expressionism to wood turn-ings, to sculptures by Rodin. But for close to ten years, we led seventh and eighth grade students through patterned closeviewing and dialogical …
It has become easy to become complacent about fashion exhibitions in museums. Their sheer number and extravagant scale have drowned out the skeptics who once questioned the place of fashion in the museum. Yearly, and even monthly, news media outlets report lists of the must-see fashion exhibitions worldwide, anticipating the avid interest of their readership. Richl…
This book presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present. Bringing together international researchers from a wide variety of disciplines (including the history of science, museum anthropology, archaeology, geography and postcolonial history) to consider the mobility of collections, we aim to provi…
Museum adalah lembaga permanen yang tidak mencari keuntungan, diabdikan untuk kepentingan masyarakat dan perkembangannya, terbuka untuk umum, yang mengumpulkan, melestarikan, meneliti, mengkomunikasikan dan memamerkan bukti-bukti bendawi manusia dan lingkungannya untuk tujuan studi, penelitian dan kesenangan (International Council of Museums, 2006). Sedang dalam Peraturan Pemerintah No. 19 tahu…
Data-data arkeologis menunjukkan bahwa Jawa Tengah merupakan salah satu titik awal dari kelahiran budaya keris. Di Jawa Tengah budaya keris terus berkembang dari era Mataram Hindu hingga era Mataram Surakarta. Ketika budaya keris sempat mengalami kemunduran pada era akhir penjajahan Belanda hingga tahun-tahun awal Indonesia merdeka, di Jawa Tengah pula menjadi titik awal kelahiran dan kepopuler…