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Inside the Lost Museum : Curating, Past and Present / Steven Lubar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) : 21 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674982901
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069/.4 23
LOC classification:
  • AM111 .L83 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Explore -- PART I. Collect -- 1. Why Collect? -- 2. Collectable -- 3. Acquisitions -- 4. In the Field -- 5. Who Collects? -- PART II. Preserve -- 6. Into the Storeroom -- 7. Paperwork -- 8. The Ethics of Objects -- PART III. Display -- 9. Objects, Stories, and Visitors -- 10. Objects on Display -- 11. Organizations and Juxtapositions -- 12. Explanations and Encounters -- 13. Setting the Scene -- 14. Turned Inside Out -- Part IV. Use -- 15. What Use Is a Museum? -- 16. Museums Make Communities -- 17. Learning From Things -- 18. Teaching with Things -- 19. The Promise of Museums -- Coda: Critique -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX
Summary: Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building—through historical and contemporary examples, especially the lost but reimagined Jenks Museum at Brown University.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674982901

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Explore -- PART I. Collect -- 1. Why Collect? -- 2. Collectable -- 3. Acquisitions -- 4. In the Field -- 5. Who Collects? -- PART II. Preserve -- 6. Into the Storeroom -- 7. Paperwork -- 8. The Ethics of Objects -- PART III. Display -- 9. Objects, Stories, and Visitors -- 10. Objects on Display -- 11. Organizations and Juxtapositions -- 12. Explanations and Encounters -- 13. Setting the Scene -- 14. Turned Inside Out -- Part IV. Use -- 15. What Use Is a Museum? -- 16. Museums Make Communities -- 17. Learning From Things -- 18. Teaching with Things -- 19. The Promise of Museums -- Coda: Critique -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX

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Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building—through historical and contemporary examples, especially the lost but reimagined Jenks Museum at Brown University.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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