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Museums and the Future of Collecting

Author(s): Knell, Simon J.
ISBN10: 0754600009
ISBN13: 9780754600008
Cover: Hardcover
 
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Table of Contents
Preface viii
Introduction
What future collecting?
3(14)
Simon Knell
Collecting in Context
Collections and collecting
17(5)
Susan Pearce
Museums without collections: museum philosophy in West Africa
22(8)
Malcolm McLeod
The future of collecting: lessons from the past
30(7)
Richard Dunn
The Ashmolean Museum: a case study of eighteenth-century collecting
37(11)
Patricia Kell
The cartographies of collecting
48(15)
Rebecca Duclos
From curio to cultural document
63(10)
Barbara Lawson
Contemporary popular collecting
73(6)
Paul Martin
Omissions and Dilemmas
Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion
79(9)
Gaynor Kavanagh
Collecting in time of war
88(5)
Zarka Vujic
The politics of museum collecting in the `old' and the `new' South Africa
93(11)
Graham Dominy
Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from `deviant' groups
104(8)
Nicola Clayton
All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils
112(8)
John Martin
What is in a `national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland
120(12)
Michael Taylor
Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork
132(9)
Janet Owen
Collecting futures
Collecting: Reclaiming the art, systematising the technique
141(10)
Linda Young
Samdok: tools to make the world visible
151(6)
Anna Steen
Professionalising collecting
157(5)
Barbro Bursell
Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums
162(4)
Maria Garcia
Carmen Chinea
Jose Farina
Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings
166(7)
Jean-Marc Gagnon
Gerald Fitzgerald
Deaccessioning as a collections management tool
173(7)
Patricia Ainslie
Collecting live performance
180(7)
James Fowler
Redefining collecting
187(10)
Tomislav Sola
Index 197

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