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The Museum Is Open
Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory - all this expanding terminology underscores the growing scholarly interest in museums.A recurring assertion is that as an institution, the museum has largely functioned as a venue for the formation of specifically national identities.
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Analysis of Cultural Heritage by Non-Destructive Methods: The Case of Sivas Congress Museum
Analysis of cultural heritage by non-destructive testing methods allows conducting an examination of the building while preserving its authenticity and integrity, as well as its historical and artistic values. As the material of this study, the Sivas Congress Museum, which witnessed a very important event in the history of the country, was discussed. The aim of the study is to determine the stone type, deterioration, hardness, and strength of the building and thus generate an idea about the quality of architectural practices in the 19th century. In addition, it aims to create a scientific basis for conservation measures and restoration works to be carried out in the following years and to determine whether there is any difference between the stone material used in the main building and the stone of the building annexed later on. At the end of the study, it was concluded that the poor economic conditions of the country have affected the quality of the building material, the stones – soft and low-strength limestone – have been exposed to atmospheric pollution and deteriorated. In addition, although one of the stones that had undergone black crusting was cleaned, it was found that mechanical cleaning was insufficient to eliminate the pollution.
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Memory Matters
\"The past is never dead. It's not even past.\" — William Faulkner
The three thought-provoking essays in Memory Matters explore how the process of memorialization keeps the past alive in the present and shape the way we imagine our possible futures. The product of a one-day symposium hosted by the Humanities Center at Miami University of Ohio, it focuses on issues of commemoration in the contexts of U.S. history, Native America, and museums. In \"From Lexington and Concord to Oklahoma City: The Perils and Promise of Public History,\" Edward T. Linenthal offers a fresh perspective on creating national memorials. In \"The Remembered/Forgotten on Native Ground,\" Daniel M. Cobb draws upon Benedict Anderson's notion of the \"remembered/forgotten\" to explore the work of memory at the sites of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the Miami Removal. And in \"Museums Matter,\" Helen Sheumaker explores how museums function as repositories and creators of cultural memory. The volume also includes a transcript based on the question-and-answer session following the original presentations. Stemming from a two-year scholarly project, \"Memory and Culture: Engaged Scholarship, Multidisciplinary Connections, and the Public Humanities,\" Memory Matters provides scholars and those interested in such fields as museum studies, memorial studies, and cultural history with provocative discussions of the ways in which representation, power, and memory intersect.
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Museums and the Future of Collecting
Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. This book exposes the many meanings of collections, the different perspectives taken by different cultures, and the institutional response to the collecting problem. One major concern is omission, whether this be determined by politics, professional ethics, the law or social agenda. How did curators collect during the war in Croatia? What were the problems of trying to collect the ’old’ South Africa when the new one was born? Can museums collect from groups which seem to ’deviate’ from society’s norms? How has the function of museums affected the practices of international trade? Can museums collect successfully if collecting agenda are being set externally? Museums and the Future of Collecting encourages museums to move away from the collecting of isolated tokens; to move beyond the collecting policy and to understand more clearly the intellectual function of what they do. Here examples are given from Australia, Sweden, Canada, Spain, Britain and Croatia which provide this intellectual understanding and many practical tools for evaluating a future collecting strategy.
Contents: Preface; Altered values: searching for a new 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 18th 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, MarÃa GarcÃa, Carmen Chinea and José Fariña; Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings, Jean-Marc Gagnon and Gerald Fitzgerald; Ranking collections, Martin Wickham; Deaccessioning as a collections management tool, Patricia Ainslie; Collecting live performance, James Fowler; Redefining collecting, Tomislav Sola; Index.
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Museums and truth
Museums are usually seen as arenas for the authorised presentations of reality, based on serious, professional knowledge. Yet, in spite of the impossibility of giving anything but a highly abstract and extremely selective impression in an exhibition, very few museums problematize this or discuss their priorities with their public. They dont ask \"what are the other truths of the matter?\" Though the essays in this collection are not written with museums and truth as their explicit subject, th.
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