Alan Crookham
Alice Stevenson
Amanda H. Hellman
archival storage
Bab Adh Dhra
Belinda Nemec
Caitlin Doherty
Cameroon Grassfields
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Christian Archaeological Society
Christina Riggs
Claire Warrior
collections management
conservation techniques
crypt
curatorial practices
Ebony Andrews
Elena Papastavrou
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exhibition planning
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Great North Museum
Hancock Museum
James Delbourgo
Jenny Gilbert-Evans
John M. Sanders
Kavita Singh
Leeds City Museum
Local Authority Museums
London's Natural History Museum
London’s Natural History Museum
material culture studies
Mathias Alubafi Fubah
Michael Conforti
Mirjam Brusius
Morag M. Kersel
museum object storage strategies
Museum Storage
Museum's Storage Areas
Museum’s Storage Areas
National Art Collections Fund
Nicky Reeves
Nikolaos Vryzidis
reserve
Reserve Collection
Sarah Bond
Sheffield City Museum
Sloane's Collections
Sloane’s Collections
Specimens
Susanna Avery-Quash
tales
Taxidermy Collection
Taxidermy Specimens
UK Wide Survey
Upinder Singh
visible
Visible Storage
Visitable Storage
Von Uffenbach
Walsall Museum
Wendy M.K. Shaw
Western Grassfields
Weston Park Museum
Product details
- ISBN 9780367884086
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Beyond their often beautiful exhibition halls, many museums contain vast, hidden spaces in which objects may be stored, conserved, or processed. Museums can also include unseen archives, study rooms, and libraries which are inaccessible to the public. This collection of essays focuses on this domain, an area that has hitherto received little attention. Divided into four sections, the book critically examines the physical space of museum storage areas, the fluctuating historical fortunes of exhibits, the growing phenomenon of publicly visible storage, and the politics of objects deemed worthy of collection but unsuitable for display. In doing so, it explores issues including the relationship between storage and canonization, the politics of collecting, the use of museum storage as a form of censorship, the architectural character of storage space, and the economic and epistemic value of museum objects. Essay contributions come from a broad combination of museum directors, curators, archaeologists, historians, and other academics.
Mirjam Brusius is a research fellow at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford, UK
Kavita Singh is a Professor in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
