Title & Author:

Museums and the future of collecting / edited by Simon J. Knell.

Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, ©1999.

Description:

200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Papers originally presented at a conference organized by the Dept. of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What future collecting? / Simon Knell -- Collections and collecting / Susan Pearce -- Museums without collections: museum philosophy in West Africa / Malcolm McLeod -- The future of collecting: lessons from the past / Richard Dunn -- The Ashmolean Museum: a case study of eighteenth century collecting / Patricia Kell -- The cartographies of collecting / Rebecca Duclos -- From curio to cultural document / Barbara Lawson -- Contemporary popular collecting / Paul Martin -- Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion / Gaynor Kavanagh -- Collecting in time of war / Zarka Vujic -- The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa / Graham Dominy -- Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from 'deviant' groups / Nicola Clayton -- All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils / John Martin -- What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland / Michael Taylor -- Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork / Janet Owen -- Collecting: Reclaiming the art, systematising the technique / Linda Young -- Samdok: tools to make the world visible / Anna Steen -- Professionalising collecting / Barbro Bursell -- Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums / María García, Carmen Chinea, José Fariña -- Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings / Jean-Marc Gagnon, Gerald Fitzgerald -- Deaccessioning as a collections management tool / Patricia Ainslie -- Collecting live performance / James Fowler -- Redefining collecting / Tomislav Sola.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP28.00 0.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0754600009 (alk. paper)
9780754600008 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Museums Acquisitions Congresses.
Musées Acquisitions Congrès.
Museums Acquisitions.
Museum
Bestandsaufbau
Kulturtheorie
Kunst
Sammeln
Sammlung
Aufsatzsammlung
Musea.
Collectievorming.
Museums -- Acquisitions -- Congresses

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Kongress Leicester 1998.
Conference papers (document genres)
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Knell, Simon J.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211619
Call No.: AM135 .M8 1999
Status: Available