ABSTRACTAs historians, we often still rely on physical archives to weave together piecemeal histories about museums, and a considerable body of critique has pointed to the archive’s partial qualities. In this respect, the growing interest in the study of gender and identity in museums has often overlooked how institutional archives – and the logics that govern them – may be also gendered. The paper addresses this problem, looking at scholarly work in archive studies to advocate a shift in the study of museum histories from ‘archives-as-things’ to ‘archiving-as-process’. New directions in museum studies, it argues, must attend to the materiality of museum archives regarding their construction of gendered narratives. The article casts light on this problem through the case study of a female typist at the National Gallery in the late 1940s. By exposing the rationality of the Gallery’s ‘archival forms’, the article suggests that such findings help us reframe the narratives of museum professionalisation about ...

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博物馆、档案馆和性别

摘要 作为历史学家，我们仍然经常依靠实物档案来编织关于博物馆的零碎历史，并且大量批评指出了档案的部分品质。在这方面，对博物馆性别和身份研究日益增长的兴趣往往忽视了机构档案——以及管理它们的逻辑——也可能是性别化的。该论文解决了这个问题，着眼于档案研究的学术工作，提倡博物馆历史研究从“档案即事物”转向“档案即过程”。它认为，博物馆研究的新方向必须关注博物馆档案在构建性别叙事方面的重要性。这篇文章通过 1940 年代后期在国家美术馆的一位女打字员的案例研究阐明了这个问题。