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The museum of the Roman-Christian necropolis of Tarragona in context Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Chiara Cecalupo
This text offers for the first time a critical and comprehensive study of the Necropolis Museum of Tarragona, which was inaugurated in 1930 by the renowned archaeologist Serra i Vilaró. It starts w...
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Civic art galleries and interwar exhibition cultures in Britain Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Sophie Hatchwell
Exploring the interwar exhibition histories of four civic art galleries in the East Midlands, this article demonstrates how such institutions in Britain became active agents in the production of in...
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Networking a national collection: Freer’s diaries, objects, and photographs Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Nancy Micklewright, Sana Mirza, Zeynep Simavi, Jeffrey Smith
ABSTRACT This article presents a network analysis of the actors and places associated with Charles Lang Freer’s collecting of Egyptian, ancient Near Eastern and Islamic art between 1907 and 1909, and highlights key developments in the formation of the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art. The authors lay out their research process and findings with two primary goals: to reveal previously unexplored aspects
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‘Maker of exhibitions’: the curatorial practice of Cordelia Oliver Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Susannah Thompson
ABSTRACT The artist, critic and curator Cordelia Oliver (1923–2009) was an integral figure in the cultural life of Scotland from the late 1950s to her death in 2009. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, Oliver gave up her career as a painter to become a freelance critic and curator, a dual role which allowed a unique perspective on the production and reception of contemporary art from Scotland
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The biography of the Lateran squeezes: The curation of archaeological knowledge through hands-on replication Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Annelies Van de Ven
ABSTRACT Replicas have the ability to communicate artistic, cultural and intellectual values outside their original context. They do this by physically establishing a canon for ordering and interpreting history. Epigraphical squeezes, as fragmentary impressions of sculpted or incised surfaces, are one example of such replicas, occupying a transitory space between source and copy. However, they are
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‘The Hatton gallery will be the scene of an experiment’: The impact of the relationship between a university institution, its art gallery and its fine art professor Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Melanie Gail Stephenson
ABSTRACT In the early 1950s, Lawrence Gowing, as Professor of Fine Art, King’s College, Durham (now Newcastle University) curated significant exhibitions for the College’s Hatton Gallery. During 1951 and 1952 these included Pictures from Collections in Northumberland, and two exhibitions concerned with the display of Poussin’s series of paintings The Seven Sacraments, loaned from the National Gallery
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Nationalising heritage: A case study of the acquisition of artefacts for the national museum of India Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Rose Sebastian
ABSTRACT The idea of ‘national heritage’ is inseparable from the emergence of the nation-state, democracy, and citizenship. Nationalisation of heritage involved the nation stepping in on behalf of the cultural rights of citizens, and acquiring the ownership of material history from its previous domains of ownership such as monarchy, religion, and colonialism. This paper studies the process of the acquisition
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Introduction - An internal ecosystem: power balance in British curatorial practice Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Laia Anguix-Vilches, Elisabetta Fabrizi, Massimiliano Papini
ABSTRACT In her research about the museum ecosystem, Jung (2011) explored the links between art galleries and the wider society they aim to serve. However, this ecosystem theory did not delve into notions of power or authority within the museum institution. Whilst scholars have investigated the nature of museums as a source of power/knowledge, there is no similar in-depth analysis of the impact of
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Curators as keepers and exhibition makers: The British Museum’s African Galleries Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Nicola Foster
ABSTRACT It is generally assumed that anthropological artefacts are fundamentally different from art works. This article questions aspects of this distinction by exploring the role of curators in anthropological collections, with a focus on the Africa Galleries at the British Museum. It looks at the complexities faced by the curators of a controversial collection, which is contested as ‘heritage’ and
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African museums and their participation in the debates on the ICOM new museum definition Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Kristina Bekenova
ABSTRACT From 2017 to 2022, ICOM worked on changing the 2007 definition of a museum to make it accord the challenges and responsibilities of the twenty-first century. To make the process transparent and participatory, ICOM invited all interested stakeholders to submit their vision of a museum. By April 2019, out of 269 new museum definitions proposed, Africa, with only 17 definitions, remained the
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Curatorial practices and ‘intrinsically English’ art: The British pavilion at the Venice Biennale Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Stefania Portinari
ABSTRACT British artists have been a constant presence at the Venice Biennale from the very beginning in 1895, installed in the only existing pavilion alongside others international artists. In 1909, a dedicated British Pavilion was built in the Saint Elena Gardens. This paper charts the development of the British curatorial choices that have taken place at the Biennale since its outset. Rather than
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A Great Wave reaches Newcastle: The 1913 Japanese Art Exhibition at the Laing Art gallery Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Massimiliano Papini, Laia Anguix-Vilches
ABSTRACT In 1913, Charles Bernard Stevenson (1874 -1957), the first curator of the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle, curated an exhibition of Japanese art, focusing on ukiyo-e prints, swords and hand guards, paintings, and ceramics. Making use of his networking skills, Stevenson obtained loans from local and national private collectors, as well as from institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Rising from the ashes of the film museum: the role of individual habitus and political-economic structures in the shaping of the British Film Institute’s curatorial strategies and the establishment of the BFI Gallery Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Elisabetta Fabrizi
ABSTRACT This article concentrates on the establishment and curation of the BFI Gallery at BFI Southbank (2007–2011), where the core, audience-facing cultural offer was extended to include contemporary artists' moving image installations. It considers the conditions that led the British Film Institute to favour commissioning over displaying, and the curatorial model of the temporary gallery commission
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Filling the bottomless pit: Financing the construction of the Royal Museums of Art and History in interwar Belgium (1919–39) Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Gerrit Verhoeven
ABSTRACT During the interwar years, when Belgium struggled to overcome the destructions of the First World War and the economic slump of the Great Depression, the government launched one of the most ambitious construction projects in Belgian history. At the Parc du Cinquantenaire an impressive ensemble of buildings, halls and galleries was constructed during the 1920s and 1930s to house the collections
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Men-only clubs and museums: associational culture and the gendering of Herne Bay’s museum between the wars Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Helen Wickstead, Pete Knowles
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen greater interest than ever in the small volunteer-run organisations that constitute the majority of British museums today. Rather than comparing the histories of small museums to those of larger institutions, we approach small museums as part of a local network of voluntary associations. Using the small town of Herne Bay as a case study, we show how associational culture
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Te Papa to Berlin. The Making of Two Museums Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Lily Withycombe
Published in Museum History Journal (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Philip W. Deans
Published in Museum History Journal (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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The conservation-restoration history of museum collections in Turkey Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Nevra Erturk
ABSTRACT The first practices in the conservation-restoration of museum collections in Turkey began in the nineteenth century with the opening of the Imperial Museum during the Ottoman Empire. Conservation-restoration work on movable cultural property gained momentum at the beginning of the Republican period from 1923 in terms of legal regulations and organisations. The number of museums increased,
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Displaying city and nation in the Prague City Museum (1883-1938) Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-16 Jaroslav Ira
ABSTRACT From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, Prague transformed from the provincial hub of Bohemia to a modern metropolis, head of the Czech nation, and capital of the new Czechoslovak state. This article explores what place Prague City Museum inhabited during this process. In particular, it looks at how the role of the museum was debated concerning its location and construction
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Representing the capital of a nation: Zagreb City Museum between Austria-Hungary and Yugoslavia (1907–1925) Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Dragan Damjanović, Željka Miklošević, Patricia Počanić
ABSTRACT In the nineteenth century, Croatia was a semi-autonomous province in the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Zagreb was the capital city and the national and political centre. Since most of the Croatian provincial governments in the so-called Dualist Period of Austro-Hungarian history (1867-1918) were formed by pro-Hungarian parties, the Zagreb City Government took on the role
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Exhibiting city, region and Germanness: Erich Keyser and the State Regional Museum of Danzig History (1927–1939) Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Adrian Mitter, Peter Oliver Loew
ABSTRACT This article explores the work of Erich Keyser, the creator and director of the State Regional Museum of Danzig History, which also functioned as the Museum of the Free City of Danzig. We discuss how Keyser conceptualised exhibitions, organised the collections and interacted with visitors. The article examines the way that Keyser envisioned the role of the museum as an educational and political
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A museum or a sanctuary of memory? The impact of a non-existent city museum in Russian Warsaw (1905–1915) Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Aleksander Łupienko
ABSTRACT Severely repressed after the anti-Russian uprising, Warsaw entered a period of forced centralisation in the Empire after 1881, with all elements of Polish history and traditions erased form school textbooks and public life. This article describes the urban revival at the end of the nineteenth century, which also included the rehabilitation of Warsaw's central historic space. The revolution
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The port city of Gdynia and its City Museum in the 1930s Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Marcin Szerle
ABSTRACT Political decisions taken after WWI resulted in significant geopolitical shifts in the South Baltic area. Due to the unfavourable stance of its new neighbour, the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk), the reborn state of Poland decided to build its own independent port in 1920. The village of Gdynia, where the investment was located, underwent a serious transformation over a decade. It became a large
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City museums in the emerging cities of Eastern Europe, 1880–1939: Introduction Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Heidi Hein-Kircher, Tanja Vahtikari
ABSTRACT In the late nineteenth century, cities from the Austro-Hungarian, Prussian and Russian Empires gained new importance and developed ambitions to become regional and/or national centres. City museums became key vehicles with which to advance this project. Before 1918, modern urbanism was tightly interwoven with projects of nation building. After the First World War, and within the context of
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Fuegian diaspora: The itinerary and agents involved in the construction of Fuegian ethnographic collections carried out by Martin Gusinde through South America and Europe, 1918–1924 Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Ana Butto, Danae Fiore
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the itinerary of the objects and the agencies involved in the construction of the collections of ethnographic artefacts gathered by German ethnographer and priest Martin Gusinde during his fieldtrips to Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile), carried out between 1918 and 1924. In order to study the formation processes of these collections, we will trace the agencies
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Regional identity and national identity. Provincial museums in Prussia at the turn of the twentieth century Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Kamila Kłudkiewicz
ABSTRACT In European countries at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there was a trend to create regional museums. In Prussia they were opened in the capitals of twelve Prussian provinces, and they had an important role in shaping the regional identity of the province. In three German regions, the situation was more complicated, as they were inhabited by representatives of another
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Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Jeffrey Abt
(2021). Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting. Museum History Journal: Vol. 14, No. 1-2, pp. 69-70.
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Function or folly? Philip Johnson’s pavilion for pre-Columbian art in Washington DC Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Stephanie Travis
ABSTRACT Nestled within the gardens of Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC is a modern pavilion for viewing art, designed by Philip Johnson in 1963. Johnson utilised a circular module organised into a three-by-three grid, with an open courtyard in the centre. Each module is encased by glass walls, as Johnson wanted to merge nature and architecture. The building is outfitted in a minimal palette of luxurious
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Art museums of Latin America: structuring representation Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-09-13 J. Pedro Lorente
(2020). Art museums of Latin America: structuring representation. Museum History Journal: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 200-202.
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Formafantasma: Cambio Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-08-19 Kate Scardifield
(2020). Formafantasma: Cambio. Museum History Journal: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 196-198.
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The revival of Byzantium through early twentieth century domestic collections in Greece: Tradition, modernity and gender Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Alexandra Bounia
ABSTRACT Between the two world wars, affluent and intellectual men and women in Greece assembled and displayed in their private homes in Athens collections of Byzantine and pseudo-Byzantine objects in order to recreate personal renderings of the ‘Byzantine world’. Some of these collections, like the one by Dionysios Loverdos, ultimately transformed into house museums; others, like the collection owned
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Regimes of value in museum practices: A networked biography of the MacGregor field collection from British New Guinea Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Robin Torrence, Elizabeth Bonshek, Anne Clarke, Susan M. Davies, Jude Philp, Michael Quinnell
ABSTRACT Between 1888 and 1898 Sir William MacGregor, first Administrator of British New Guinea, orchestrated the collection of over 15,000 cultural objects. Using Appadurai's notion of ‘things-in-motion’, we trace the networked biography of the MacGregor collection through ‘regimes of value’ as it moved from the territory to museums in Australia and Britain and then repatriated to Papua New Guinea
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The creation of the major medieval textile museum in Spain: A history of the discovery, study and initial exhibition of the collection (1942−1949) Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Maria Barrigón
ABSTRACT This article traces the history of the collection of medieval textiles from the abbey church of Las Huelgas in Burgos (Spain), including its discovery, study and initial display. The collection consists of more than 200 medieval textile grave goods from members of the royal family of Castile recovered between 1942 and 1944. After a detailed account of its discovery and the conditioning factors
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Capturing nature: early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893 Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-09 Athol McCredie
(2020). Capturing nature: early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893. Museum History Journal: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 199-200.
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From histories of museums to museum history: approaches to historicising colonial museums in Aotearoa New Zealand Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Conal McCarthy
ABSTRACT Despite their reputation for stasis and fixity, museums are about change and transformation. What can we learn from the history of New Zealand museums about the study of museum history? This article considers the lessons we can glean from New Zealand museums in the colonial period. It surveys recent theories about history, social change and museums, including historical sociology, which throw
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What were they thinking? Tracing evolution in the Otago Museum, 1868–1936 Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Rosi Crane
ABSTRACT The first three curators at the Otago University Museum, Dunedin, NZ had much in common. They were zoologists, all evolutionists, all part-time curators (they held professorial posts in the University), all Englishmen, and all professed an Anglican faith, qualities that brought them unexpected conflict in the largely Presbyterian Scottish settler town. The men struggled to complete their time-constrained
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‘My dear Hooker’: the botanical landscape in colonial New Zealand Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Rebecca Rice
ABSTRACT From the 1860s, there was a flurry of activity around the natural sciences in colonial New Zealand, as the native flora of this place was collected, analysed, identified and classified. While males dominated the professional world of knowledge production in the recently established field of ‘serious’ scientific botany, the amateur field was populated by highly talented females, including Georgina
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Introduction: Museum histories in Aotearoa New Zealand: intersections of the local and the global Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Rosi Crane, Bronwyn Labrum, Angela Wanhalla
This special issue is the result of a two-day conference, ‘Held in Trust: Curiosity in Things’, sponsored by the University of Otago’s Centre for Research on Colonial Culture (CRoCC), and held at the Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, in January 2019. The gathering, which was prompted by the 150th year of the Otago Museum, focused on histories of institutional collections and collectors in Aotearoa
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Fitting the colonial museum dashboard? Civic action, curatorial agency and identity building at the Auckland Museum (1852–1929) Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-02 David Gaimster
ABSTRACT John MacKenzie in his Museums and Empire (2010) sets out an evolutionary framework of museum development in the British settler colonies. The formation years of the Auckland Museum in New Zealand both align and misalign with this progressive imperial model. In contrast to the establishment of the first Australian museums, which were essentially state sponsored enterprises, the Auckland Museum
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Researching the natural history trade of the nineteenth century Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Simon Ville
ABSTRACT The archives of the Australian Museum and the Macleay Museum are deployed to analyse the global trading networks of two important Australian natural history collectors in the mid-nineteenth century. The evidence reveals much about the challenges they faced transacting in heterogeneous specimens over long distances. It also uncovers some of the solutions they pursued, particularly in choosing
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Collecting, colonisation and civic culture in southern New Zealand Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Tony Ballantyne
ABSTRACT Colonial collections played an important dual role: they were key sites from which ideas about cultural difference were theorised and they were also the foundations of public institutions that were central in shaping civic culture. This article explores these dynamics through the history of the Otago Museum and, in particular, the very different types of collecting engaged in by the colonial
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Finding back Carlos Berg’s fish specimens: Naturalist preparation and collection management in object biography and conservation Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Amandine Péquignot,Gustavo E. Chiaramonte
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Te Papa: Reinventing New Zealand’s national museum 1998-2018 Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Greg Lehman
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Bone rooms: from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Amber Aranui
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Museums in the Second World War: curators, culture and change Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Ana Baeza Ruiz
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‘Collective wisdom’ at the National Archaeological Museum in Portugal Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Elisabete J. Santos Pereira, Maria Margaret Lopes, Maria de Fátima Nunes
The aim of this article is to highlight the scientific practices of a range of ‘invisible technicians’ in order to provide a more complete understanding of the history of the National Archaeologica...
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Projecting the Museum: Moving images in, and of, Scotland’s national museum Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Geoffrey N. Swinney
The century-long engagement of museums with the moving image is examined through a case study of its deployment by National Museums Scotland (inclusive of its predecessor organisations the Royal Scottish Museum and the Royal Museum of Scotland). The study engages the academic genres of film studies and museum studies to critically examine the use of moving images in, and by, the Museum over what might
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Connecting health and the museum: An exhibition initiative by the National Health Council at the Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum, 1922–1924 Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Julie K. Brown
ABSTRACTConnecting health with the museum was an idea that emerged gradually in the early twentieth century, especially following World War I. In 1922, the recently founded National Health Council ...
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Introduction to the special issue ‘Collecting Latin America in the nineteenth century’ Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Mariana Françozo,Maria Patricia Ordoñez
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Historic house museums in the United States and the United Kingdom: a history Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Caroline Z. Morris
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Museum, archaeology and nation: González Suárez and the Sociedad de Estudios Histórico-Americanos in early twentieth-century Ecuador Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-01-02 María Elena Bedoya Hidalgo
ABSTRACTThis article proposes an analytical reading of the ways in which an Ecuadorian museology was conceived at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Ecuadorian state, unlike other countries in the region, showed little interest in promoting and sponsoring the establishment of academies or institutes for the research of history in specialised circuits that were linked with ideas of the public
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Vibrant pasts in museum drawers: Advances in the study of late precolonial (AD 800–1500) materials collected from north-central Venezuela Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Andrzej T. Antczak, Ma Magdalena Antczak, Catarina Guzzo Falci
ABSTRACT Starting in the second half of the nineteenth century, museums and private collectors across the Americas and Europe began amassing objects produced by the indigenous peoples of north-central Venezuela before the European conquest. The rich imagery displayed on decorated pottery and figurines, as well as on skilfully made body ornaments, strongly appealed to the aesthetic tastes of the museum
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Bundling objects, documents, and practices: Collecting Andean mummies from 1850 to 1930 Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Maria Patricia Ordoñez
ABSTRACT This article presents research on the relationship between objects, documents, and the practice of collecting Andean mummies by European national museums in the period from 1850 to 1930. Over 200 mummies were analysed as part of this research. These mummies are kept by 18 different national museums in Western European countries. The comparative examination of these mummified human remains
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From Berlin to Belém: Theodor Koch-Grünberg’s Rio Negro collections Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Erik Petschelies
ABSTRACT During his expedition to the rivers Rio Negro and Japurá between 1903 and 1905, the German ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grünberg amassed an ethnographic collection. Part of it he sold to the Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin and a smaller part was purchased by the Swiss naturalist Emílio Goeldi for the Museu Paraense in Belém, in northern Brazil. A number of aspects arise from this singular
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Undocumented objects: The collection Cavalcanti at Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Rita de Cássia Melo Santos
ABSTRACT The Marquesa de Cavalcanti Collection kept at the Volkenkunde Museum, in Leiden, the Netherlands, is one of the oldest records of the existence of Brazilian objects in this museum. It is part of a broader collection created for the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition, held in 1882, and for the Universal Exhibition in Paris, held in 1889. The main focus of this article is on the itineraries
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Museums, archives and gender Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Ana Baeza Ruiz
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
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The Janitor and his museum: John Wilson (1775–1832) and the teaching of ‘practical zoology’ in early nineteenth-century Edinburgh Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Geoffrey N. Swinney, Robert Y. McGowan
ABSTRACT A description by William Jardine of Applegirth of the state of taxidermy in early nineteenth-century Edinburgh draws attention to the agency of the University of Edinburgh’s Janitor, John Wilson, in contributing to the University’s Natural History Museum, in the building of his own private museum collection, and in the teaching of ‘practical zoology’. This description has prompted the present
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The involvement of women in the National Museum of Decorative Arts of Madrid (Spain): 1912–1942 Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Isabel M. Rodríguez-Marco, Ana Cabrera-Lafuente
ABSTRACT This article discusses, from the perspective of women’s history, the activity of the National Museum of Decorative Arts of Madrid (MNAD) during its first thirty years (1912–1942). This work is mainly focused on the role of the Museum in promoting the artistic education of Spanish women, an undertaking which is only possible in a political and intellectual context dominated by a reforming liberalism
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The Mingei Undô, Eudald Serra and the Japanese folk craft collections of the Ethnology Museum of Barcelona: the provenance of a collection Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Muriel Gómez Pradas
ABSTRACTIn this article we take as a case study the provenance of the Japanese collection kept in the Ethnology Museum of Barcelona, Spain. This interesting collection came to a Spanish museum, thanks to Eudald Serra (1911−2002), a sculptor, ceramicist, designer, photographer and, above all, a great traveller. Eudald Serra lived in Japan from 1935 to 1948 and directed the acquisition trips conducted
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Museum storage and meaning: Tales from the crypt (Research in Museum Studies, vol. 14) Museum History Journal Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Johannes Zechner