Shortcuts
Please wait while page loads.
Chester Beatty Library . Default .
PageMenu- Main Menu-
Page content

Catalogue Display

Museum storage and meaning: tales from the crypt

Museum storage and meaning: tales from the crypt
Catalogue Information
Field name Details
ISBN 0367884089 (softcover)
9780367884086 (softcover)
Title Museum storage and meaning : tales from the crypt / edited by Mirjam Brusius and Kavita Singh
Publisher Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018
Physical desc. xv, 290 pages ; illustrations, plans ; 24 cm.
Series Routledge research in museum studies 14
Note Paperback issue, 2019.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Mirjam Brusius and Kavita Singh -- Part 1: Visible and visitable storage. Performances of museum storage / James Delbourgo -- Visible storage, visible labour? / Nicky Reeves -- Serendipity, transparency, and wonder: the value of visitable storage / Sarah Bond -- Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian, in conversation with Mirjam Brusius -- To store is to save: Kenneth C. Murray and the founding of the Nigerian Museum, Lagos / Amanda H. Hellman -- Part 2: Spaces of storage, beyond display. 'Essential cure for dying museums': Clarence S. Stein and study-storage / Belinda Nemec -- 'Storage' and 'display': third world perspectives and practices / Upinder Singh -- Home from home: memory and history, families and museums / Claire Warrior -- Home storage: the treatment of domestic collections of aeronautica by the Science Museum and the National Air and Space Museum / Caitlin Doherty -- Preserving preservation: maintaining meaning in museum storage / Wendy M. K. Shaw -- Part 3: In and out of view: changing fortunes of objects. Hidden histories: museum taxidermy rediscovered / John Sanders -- The animals went in two by two: shifts in the classification and display of taxidermy in the seen and unseen spaces of public museums / Ebony Andrews -- Museum utopia for the twenty-first century: an 'odd and impractical little dream' / Michael Conforti -- Upstairs, downstairs: the National Gallery's dual collections / Susanna Avery-Quash and Alan Crookham -- The double life of 'Oriental' textiles at the Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens: interpreting the storage and displayability of Ottoman fabrics in twentieth-century Greece / Nikolaos Vryzidis and Elena Papastavrou -- Part 4: Politics of awkwardness, anxiety and taboo. Lying in wait: inertia and latency in the collection / Alice Stevenson -- Clothing, care and compromise: a case study of the storage of the Hodson Shop collection, 1983-2015 / Jenny Gilbert-Evans -- Loose bodies: reserve collections, curatorial reservations, and the Ancient Egyptian dead / Christina Riggs -- The secret art of the Bambui Royal Treasury, Western Grassfield, Cameroon / Mathias Alubafi Fubah -- Remnants of past lives: storing archaeological stuff / Morag M. Kersel.
Subject Museums -- Collection management
Museum storage facilities
Added name(s) Brusius, Mirjam editor
Singh, Kavita editor
.
Related Works Catalogue Record 18750
.
Add Title to Basket Catalogue Record 18750
.
Catalogue Information 18750 Beginning of record . Catalogue Information 18750 Top of page .
Item Information
Barcode Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Status Due Date
10015021 069.5 BRU
 RLOM   . Available .  
Download Title Catalogue Record 18750
. Catalogue Record 18750 ItemInfo Beginning of record . Catalogue Record 18750 ItemInfo Top of page .