E-book A History of Museology

Is museology a theory or a set of practices? Is it a science or just museum work? Is it the same as museum theory? Or is it autonomous from the museum? Is it a philosophy or is it based on social experimentation? Are we evolving towards the path of a metamuseology? If so, what are the boundaries of this ‘museology’ that has shown to have no boundaries in the past decades of theoretical rese…

E-book Key Concepts of Museology

What is a museum? How do we defi ne a collection? What is an institution? What does the term ‘heritage’ encompass? Museum professionals have inevitably developed answers to questions such as these, which are fundamental to their work, compiled according to their knowledge and experience. Do we need to reconsider these? We believe so. Museum work shifts back and forth between practice and th…

E-book Working Through Colonial Collections

his research was funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as part of the research award for Sharon Macdonald’s Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, and was carried out at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) at the Department for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I also received financial support from the Ge…

E-book Virtual Museums – A Plea : Around the Clock, Around the World

igitalisation and virtual worlds are increasingly permeating the cultural sector and the creative industries. When it is difficult for cultural offerings to find their audience, they can or must actively reach out to their audience. This also applies to museums, which can find and retain audiences in different ways and with different formats. Even a virtual museum is fundamentally a museum. …

E-book The Museum Accessibility Spectrum : Re-imagining Access and Inclusion

Central to the practice of the modern museum sector are the principles of access, inclusion, diversity, sustainability, and community participation (ICOM, 2022). As the curators of our cultural and social histories, the heritage sector is morally and legally required to provide reasonable adjustments to ensure equitable access or all people. The dictionary definition of access is the me…

E-book The Aftermaths of Participation

It has been seven years since the so-called refugee crisis in Europe, andwarfarecontinuestoforcepeopletoleavetheirhomelandstosettleelsewhere.AsIamwritingthis,inAprilof2022,RussiantroopsaretearingapartUkraineand the lives of its people, forcing many people to flee their homes. Forcedmigration is not temporary phenomenon, and historical, ethnographic andcity museums will –one wayor another –c…

E-book The Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas at the Dallas Mus…

In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and ritual objects, artwork from Southeast Asia, and decorative arts from India’s Mughal period. Artworks in the collection have origins from the former…

E-book The Art of Museum Exhibitions: How Story and Imagination Create Aesthe…

Leslie Bedford, former director of the highly regarded Bank Street College museum leadership program, expands the museum professional’s vision of exhibitions beyond the simple goal of transmitting knowledge to the visitor. Her view of exhibitions as interactive, emotional, embodied, imaginative experiences opens a new vista for those designing them. Using examples both from her own work at th…

E-book What Photographs Do: The Making and Remaking of Museum Cultures

What are photographs ‘doing’ in museums? Why are some photographs valued and others not? Why are some photographic practices visible and not others? What value systems and hierarchies do they reflect? What Photographs Do explores how museums are defined through their photographic practices. It focuses not on formal collections of photographs as accessioned objects, be they ‘fine art’ or…

E-book Heritage Dynamics : Understanding and adapting to change in diverse he…

How is heritage created and re- created, shaped and reshaped, formed, reformed and transformed – or even reborn? Heritage in all its forms endures a lengthy and dynamic journey of emergence, transformation, decline and revival. An object displayed within a museum showcase may have travelled through various places and changed uses more than once before acquiri…

E-book Jamaica Making : The Theresa Roberts Art Collection

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…

E-book Heritage Conservation and Social Engagement

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 …

E-book Mind Museums : Former Asylums and the Heritage of Mental Health

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…

E-book Sri Ksetra Museum Collection Inventory

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…

E-book Making the Palace Machine Work : Mobilizing People, Objects, and Natur…

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…

E-book The Museum as Experience : Learning, Connection, and Shared Space

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 …

E-book Fashion, History, Museums : Inventing the Display of Dress

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…

E-book Mobile Museums : Collections in Circulation

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…

E-book Direktori Museum Indonesia

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…

Keris Jawa Tengah

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…

Batik's Collection Ranggawarsita Museum

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