TY - BOOK AU - Lubar,Steven TI - Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present SN - 9780674982901 AV - AM111 .L83 2017eb U1 - 069/.4 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Curatorship KW - Museum techniques KW - ART / Museum Studies KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674982901 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674982901 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674982901.jpg ER -