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• Title:Inside the lost museum : curating, past and present / Steven Lubar.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lubar, Steven D., author.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England : Harvard University Press, [2017]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: AM111 .L83 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Jenks Museum of Natural History and Anthropology.
  Museum techniques.
  Curatorship.
  
• Description:viii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:For more than two centuries museums have preserved art, artifacts, and natural specimens, engaged and educated the public, and provided resources for research in areas from art history to zoology. Inside the Lost Museum explains the work of museums--collecting, preserving, displaying, and using collections--by considering their remarkable history. Museums make choices about what's worth saving. Inside the Lost Museum explores those choices, and the processes--from donation to purchase to expedition--that shape collections. Once collected, museum objects are numbered, cataloged, and conserved, and sometimes deaccessioned--processes that have their own hows and whys. Museums display art and artifact in many ways, from dioramas and period rooms to paintings on white walls and visual storage. Inside the Lost Museums reveals the meanings of those choices, and the ways that they have changed and continue to change, shaped by new technologies and ideologies. It also argues for the the value of museum collections for research, teaching, and community-building. Woven through Inside the Lost Museum is the story of the Jenks Museum of Brown University, a nineteenth-century museum of natural history, anthropology and "curiosities" that disappeared a century ago. The Jenks Museum's history, and a recent effort to re-imagine that museum as art, science and history, serves as a framework for understanding museums' long record of usefulness and service. Inside the Lost Museum considers the lessons museum history holds for museums today and tomorrow.-- Provided by publisher
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780674971042 (alk. paper)
  0674971043
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Collect
  1. Why Collect?
  2. Collectable
  3. Acquisitions
  4. In the Field
  5. Who Collects?
  pt. II Preserve
  6. Into the Storeroom
  7. Paperwork
  8. Ethics of Objects
  pt. 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
  pt. IV Use
  15. What Use Is a Museum?
  16. Museums Make Communities
  17. Learning from Things
  18. Teaching with Things
  19. Promise of Museums.