Museums and the future of collecting
By: edited by Simon J. Knell
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781315248561
Subjects: Museums; Acquisitions; Musées; Congrès; 20.12 art museums; Museumkunde; Aanschaf; Beleidsvorming; Verzamelingen; Museus; Aquisição; Coleções; Acquisition; Musée
Description: What and how should museums collect is the question that the contributors to this study consider as they acknowledge the financial and social realities, limitations and complexities of the world in which they operate.
Notes: Originally published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.

"Papers originally presented at a conference organised by the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Altered values : searching for a new collecting / Simon Knell; title: 2. Collections and collecting / Susan Pearce; title: 3. Museums without collections : museum philosophy in West Africa / Malcolm McLeod; title: 4. The future of collecting : lessons from the past / Richard Dunn; title: 5. The Ashmolean Musuem : a case study of eighteenth-century collecting / Patricia Kell; title: 6. The cartographies of collecting / Rebecca Duclos; title: 7. From curio to cultural document / Barbara Lawson; title: 8. Contemporary popular collecting / Paul Martin; title: 9. Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion / Gaynor Kavanagh; title: 10. Collecting in time of war / Žarka Vujic; title: 11. The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa / Graham Dominy; title: 12. Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from 'deviant' groups / Nicola Clayton; title: 13. All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils / John Martin; title: 14. What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland / Michael Taylor; title: 15. Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork / Janet Owen; title: 16. Collecting : reclaiming the art, systematising the technique / Linda Young; title: 17. Samdok : tools to make the world visible / Anna Steen; title: 18. Professionalising collecting / Barbro Bursell; title: 19. Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums / María García, Carmen Chinea and José Fariña; title: 20. Towards a national collection strategy : reviewing existing holdings / Jean-Marc Gagnon and Gerald Fitzgerald; title: 21. Ranking collections / Martin Wickham; title: 22. Deaccessioning as a collections management tool / Patricia Ainslie; title: 23. Collecting live performance / James Fowler; title: 24. Redefining collecting / Tomislav Sola.