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• Dismantling the showcase
• Heritage in exile
• On borders : Deconstructing the modern museum
• A time for the margins : On reconstructing and rehumanising
• Redistributing the museum : Towards a museology of hope
• Reflections for our past's future.

• Community Museums : Nurturing identities and resilience
• Connecting Regions : Communities and museums co-curating heritage and memory.

"Communities and Museums in the 21st Century brings together innovative, multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary museology and participatory museum practice that contribute to wider debates on museum communities, heritage, and sustainability. Set within the context of globalisation and decolonization, the book draws upon bi-regional research that will enrich our understanding of the complex relationships between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean through museum studies and practice. Chapters reflect upon the role of museums in defining community identities; the importance of young people's participation and intergenerational work for sustainability; the role of museums in local development; and community-based museums and climate change. Contributors examine these issues through the lens of museum partnerships and practices, as well as testing the continued relevance of the notion of 'integral museum' and its relatives in the form of ecomuseums. With its focus on regional museums in Latin America and Caribbean, the book highlights how the case studies promote greater intercultural dialogue, global understanding and social cohesion. It will also demonstrate how the methodology can be adapted to other communities who are facing the perils of climate change and unsustainable forms of development. Communities and Museums in the 21st Century proposes creative and sustainable strategies relevant to a globalised future. With its focus on global societal challenges, the book will appeal to museologists and museum practitioners, as well as those working in heritage studies, cultural studies, memory studies, art history, gender studies, and sustainable development"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword
• Introduction: Committed to Change-Ten Years of Creative Access
• Part I: Curatorial Reflections in the Age of COVID-19: Chapter 1: The "Swell": Disability Arts in the Time of COVID-19
• Chapter 2: Becoming Indisposable: Curating Disability in a Time of Pandemic
• Chapter 3: Connect2Abilities: Staging Virtual Intercultural Collaboration during COVID-19
• Part II: Curatorial Reflections: Chapter 4: Disabled Artists, Audience, and the Museum as the Place of Those Who Have No Part
• Chapter 5: Generative Forms of Experiential Access
• Chapter 6: From Dust to Dust: Hallucinating the Absent Exhibition
• Chapter 7: Perspective: Highlighting Disabled Experience through an Interdisciplinary and Socially Engaged Art Project
• Chapter 8: Unseen Journeys Made Visible: Using Socially Engaged Art to Cross Boundaries and Create a Universally Enriching Experience
• Chapter 9: Human Threads: Altered States
• Chapter 10: Incarnate Experiences: Learning to Curate Exhibitions for Disabled Bodies
• Part III: Access Critique: Chapter 11: On Brand: When Design Museums Discover Disability
• Chapter 12: Accommodating and Enabling Anxiety Disorders and Agoraphobia in Digital Access Systems for Cultural Heritage
• Chapter 13: Do You Hear My Point? Addressing Accessibility Issues within Spatial Audio
• Part IV: Collaboration & Conversation: Chapter 14: Codesigning Access: A New Approach to Cultures of Inclusion in Museums and Galleries
• Chapter 15: Desiring Disruption: Experimental Approaches to Audio Description
• Chapter 16: Curating Together: A Tangled, Intergenerational, Interdependent Community of Practice
• Chapter 17: Networks of Care: Collectivity as Dialogic Creative Access
• Part V: Artistic Access Praxis: Chapter 18: Troublesome Access in Pope.L's Instigation, Aspiration, Perspiration
• Chapter 19: "My Practice is Staying Alive": Critique and Care in the Sculptures of Emily Barker
• Chapter 20: Considering Amanda Coogan's Performance Art as an Accessible Practice
• Chapter 21: Open Access: Accessibility as a Temporary, Collectively Held Space
• Chapter 22: Alt Text as Poetry Project
• Chapter 23: Disability Access Rider
• Chapter 24: A Primer On Working With Disabled Group Members: For Feminist/Activist Groups and Organizations
• Index.
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Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has already been executed and ready to be installed in the museum or gallery. But what if the artists were to ponder access as an integral and critical part of their artwork? Can access be creative and experimental? And furthermore, can the curator also fold access into their practice, while working collaboratively with artists, considering it as a theoretical and practical generative force that seeks to make an exhibition more engaging for a wider diversity of audiences? This volume includes essays by a growing number of artists, curators, and scholars who ponder these ideas of ad-hoc, experimental and underground approaches within exhibition-making and artistic practices. It considers how, through these nascent exhibition models and art practices, enhanced experiences of access in the museum can be a shared responsibility amongst museum workers, curators, and artists, in tandem with the public, so that access becomes a zone of intellectual and creative "accommodation, " rather than strictly a discourse on policy. The book provides innovative case studies which provide a template for how access might be implemented by individuals, artists, curators, museum administrators and educators given the growing need to offer as many modalities of access as possible within cultural institutions. This book shows that anyone can be a curator of access and demonstrates how to approach access in a way that goes beyond protocol and policy. It will thus be of interest to students and scholars engaged in the study of museums, art history and visual culture, disability, culture, and communication.
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"Museum Exhibitions and Suspense takes insights from screenwriting to revolutionise our understanding of exhibition curating. Despite all genuine efforts to reach broader audiences, museums persistently fear to risk their credibility by becoming 'too popular'. Thus, the enormous potential to learn from other storytelling forms, more experienced in the field of entertainment, remains essentially unexploited. Museum Exhibitions and Suspense unlocks this creative potential. A comparative in-depth analysis of three classical Hollywood films and three cultural historical exhibitions demonstrates how dramatic suspense techniques can be applied to exhibitions. These techniques have to be adapted to the typical epic character of the exhibition medium. By differentiating between mild and wild suspense, the book provides a new understanding of the nature of suspense itself. Museum Exhibitions and Suspense addresses academics and students in the fields of museum studies, gallery studies, and heritage studies interested in how exhibitions function and in how to achieve dramaturgical effects like suspense. It also appeals to scholars and students within film studies who want to gain a deeper understanding of suspense. It provides an important resource for curators and other museum practitioners, and scriptwriters who intend to create stories with a wide audience appeal"-- Provided by publisher

• 1. Introduction: Museums, Collections and Social Repair
• 2. Museums, Maritime Threats and Witnessing
• 3. Museums, Relics and the Work for the Dead
• 4. Museums, Documents and Social Repair
• 5. Museums, Testimony and Curating the Dead
• 6. Conclusion: Re-making the Future
• Index.
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This book Analyses the role of museums in transforming lives and creating a just future. Explores how museums help ordinary people overcome loss suffered during conflict. Draws on fieldwork in a range of museums in Vietnam, alongside interviews with museum workers and stakeholders, and analyses of museum exhibitions. Also brings in question the dynamics between history and memory; the capacity of the museum to repair injury, loss or suffering; and the limits of historical memory beyond the control of a one-party state. Will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums, heritage, Asia, tourism and anthropology.
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• Pt. 1. Perspectives historiques
• L'Arcadie : un nouvel espace de sociabilité sous l'emprise de la curie romaine
• L'antiquaire, un "amateur" entre sphère privée, institutions académiques et commandes gouvernementales, de la Révolution à la monarchie de Juillet
• Art ou amateurisme ?
• La réception du kitsch entre les années 1970 et 1980
• Amateurs et collectionneurs du XIXe au XXIe siècle : les nouveaux partages des savoirs
• Poétiques open source. Professionnalisme et dilettantisme dans l'art 2.0
• Pt. 2. Expérimentations numériques
• Un inventaire participatif du patrimoine culturel immatériel en France avec Wikipédia : coulisses et enjeux du site PCI Lab
• "Traversées", une plateforme collaborative pour Mayotte
• Recherches culturelles et sciences participatives. Retour d'expérience du réseau Particip-Arc
• La création participative transmédiatique contre la plateformisation numérique. Le Général Instin modèle de l'antiplateforme culturelle
• Entre amateurs et institutions : comment trouver le bon équilibre ?
• Références bibliographiques
• Les auteurs.

"Depuis l'époque des cabinets de curiosités jusqu'à l'affirmation des Académies, la figure de l'amateur de l'époque moderne a joué un rôle important dans la construction des savoirs aux côtés des institutions. Aujourd'hui, face au nouvel essor de l'amateur 2.0, les institutions culturelles redécouvrent cette figure et cherchent de nouvelles solutions de médiation participative pour orienter son énergie vers l'enceinte des musées, des archives, des bibliothèques... Si l'amateur participe au fil des siècles à l'avancement et à la diffusion des connaissances en complémentarité des institutions et si, aujourd'hui, il redevient acteur sur la scène culturelle, son profil et son rôle méritent un nouvel approfondissement. Cet ouvrage collectif se lance un double défi : l'un historiographique, l'autre de terrain. La première partie vise à tisser les fils rouges entre les siècles autour de cette figure et notamment autour de sa relation avec les institutions, depuis l'activité de l'Académie d'Arcadie à Rome à la fin du XVIIe siècle, jusqu'au glitch au XXe siècle. À la lumière de ces réflexions historiques, la deuxième partie propose une nouvelle lecture pour l'amateur contemporain, en profitant des terrains très riches offerts par le périmètre du Labex Les passés dans le présent. Plusieurs cas d'étude sont présentés pour réinterpréter cette relation entre amateur et institution, et pour relier les phénomènes actuels, ancrés au numérique, à la longue histoire de ce rapport, bien loin d'être linéaire."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum
• 1. Archives and Museums
• 2. Museums Victoria and the History of Museum Computing
• 3. Field Books, Dissociation, and Organisational Knowledge
• 4. Donald Thomson and the Relationality of Collections
• 5. Beyond Networks: Reconceptualising Collections Documentation
• Conclusion: From Theory to Implementation.
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Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum provides the first interdisciplinary study of the digital documentation of artefacts and archives in contemporary museums, while also exploring the implications of polyphonic, relational thinking on collections documentation. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the book provides a critical examination of the history of collections management and documentation since the introduction of computers to museums in the 1960s, demonstrating how technology has contributed to the disconnection of distributed collections knowledge. Jones also highlights how separate documentation systems have developed, managed by distinct, increasingly professionalised staff, impacting our ability to understand and use what we find in museums and their ever-expanding online collections. Exploring this legacy allows us to rethink current practice, focusing less on individual objects and more on the rich stories and interconnected resources that lie at the heart of the contemporary, plural, participatory 'relational museum.' Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum is essential reading for those who wish to better understand the institutional silos found in museums, and the changes required to make museum knowledge more accessible. The book is a particularly important addition to the fields of museum studies, archival science, information management, and the history of cultural heritage technologies.
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• America's first museum / Carl P. Borick
• Archaeology collection / Martha Zierden
• Archives collection / Jennifer McCormick
• Historic textiles collection / Virginia Theerman
• History collection / Carl P. Borick
• Natural history collection / Matthew Gibson
• Heyward-Washington House / Carl P. Borick
• Joseph Manigault House / Carl P. Borick
• Dill Sanctuary / Carl P. Borick

Since its founding in 1773, the Charleston Museum has served as a mecca of learning and discovery. In celebration of its 250th anniversary, this commemorative volume brings its rich history to life, offering insights into many of its 2.4 million collected artifacts while detailing the contributions of key figures, such as Gabriel Manigault, Laura Bragg, and Milby Burton, who made it one of the premier museums in the southern United States. This handsomely illustrated compendium showcases approximately 100 prized pieces from the museum's impressive collections in archaeology, natural history, archived materials, decorative arts, and historic textiles, as well as its preservation of historic landmarks, such as the Heyward-Washington House, the Joseph Manigault House, and the Dill Sanctuary, a 580-acre wildlife refuge on nearby James Island. The collections, unmatched in their interpretive value to South Carolina cultural and natural history, make this museum a place of endearing value to the Charleston community and the Palmetto State as it continues to evolve and thrive into the twenty-first century.
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• Significance of Conservation of Cultural Heritages in Museums.- Diagnosis of Museum Environment and Collections.- Environment and Preventive Conservation.- Deterioration and Remedial Conservation.- Environmental Protection and Role of Museums.- Education and Disseminate.
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The author introduces conservation science and management of cultural heritages in museums. In particular, a comprehensive conservation study and practical techniques are described. Aspects such as examination and diagnosis of cultural heritage by scientific data recording of humidity, luminosity, intensity of vibration and shock, among others, are introduced. Preventive and remedial conservation with X-ray imaging and X-ray fluorescence and other risk-control methods are also explained. The author provides basic theories based on a scientific view for the methods introduced in this book. They can be compared with those used at other museums, and readers can employ them to adapt and improve their methods. Today, maintaining smooth internal communication is key for scientists and curators with different academic backgrounds and from different departments working together on conservation projects at the museum. The author addresses the current global trend of preserving rather than repairing cultural heritage at museums and emphasizes its importance.
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• Chapter 1: Returning the Collection
• Chapter 2: Subverting the Gaze
• Chapter 3: Rewriting the Narrative
• Chapter 4: Following the Money
• Epilogue.

• Chapter 1: Returning the collection
• Chapter 2: Subverting the gaze
• Chapter 3: Rewriting the narrative
• Chapter 4: Following the money
• Epilogue

Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care. The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History, has remained much the same for over a century: a uniquely rarified public space of cool stone, providing an experience of leisure and education for the general public while carefully tending fragile artifacts from distant lands. As questions about representation and ethics have increasingly arisen, these institutions have proclaimed their interest in diversity and responsible conservation, asserting both their adaptability and their immovably essential role in a flourishing and culturally rich society. With Decolonize Museums, Shimrit Lee punctures this fantasy, tracing the essentially colonial origins of the concept of the museum. White Europeans' atrocities were reimagined through narratives of benign curiosity and abundant respect for the occupied or annihilated culture, and these racist narratives, Lee argues, remain integral to the authority exercised by museums today. Citing pop culture references from Indiana Jones to Black Panther, and highlighting crucial activist campaigns and legal action to redress the harms perpetrated by museums and their proxies, Decolonize Museums argues that we must face a dismantling of these seemingly eternal edifices, and consider what, if anything, might take their place.
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