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The Thing about Museums Objects and Experience, Representation and Contestation

<EM>The Things about Museums</EM> constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objects in the context of museums, galleries and/or the heritage sector more broadly. Specifically, the book deals with how objects are constructed in museums, the ways in which visitors may directly experience those objects, how objects are utilised within particular representational strategies and forms, and the challenges and opportunities presented by using objects to communicate difficult and contested matters. Topics and approaches examined in the book are diverse, but include the objectification of natural history specimens and museum registers; materiality, immateriality, transience and absence; subject/object boundaries; sensory, phenomenological perspectives; the museumisation of objects and collections; and the dangers inherent in assuming that objects, interpretation and heritage are 'good' for us.

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  • "<EM>The Things about Museums</EM> constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objects in the context of museums, galleries and/or the heritage sector more broadly. Specifically, the book deals with how objects are constructed in museums, the ways in which visitors may directly experience those objects, how objects are utilised within particular representational strategies and forms, and the challenges and opportunities presented by using objects to communicate difficult and contested matters. Topics and approaches examined in the book are diverse, but include the objectification of natural history specimens and museum registers; materiality, immateriality, transience and absence; subject/object boundaries; sensory, phenomenological perspectives; the museumisation of objects and collections; and the dangers inherent in assuming that objects, interpretation and heritage are 'good' for us."@en
  • "The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objects in the context of museums, galleries and/or the heritage sector more broadly. Specifically, the book deals with how objects are constructed in museums, the ways in which visitors may directly experience those objects, how objects are utilised within particular representational strategies and forms, and the challenges."@en
  • "Preface / Sandra Dudley -- 1. Introduction: museums and things / Sandra Dudley -- Part I: Objects and their creation in the museum. Introduction / Jennifer Walklate -- 2. Romancing the Stones: earth science objects as material culture / Hannah-Lee Chalk -- 3. What do we know about what we know? The museum 'register' as museum object / Geoffrey N. Swinney -- 4. Emblematic museum objects of national significance: in search of their multiple meanings and values / Marlen Mouliou and Despina Kalessopoulou -- 5. Musealization processes in the realm of art / Maria Lucia de Niemeyer Matheus Loureiro -- 6. Photography - museum: on posing, imageness, and the punctum / Klaus Wehner -- Part II: Visitors' engagements with museum objects. Introduction / Jennifer Binnie -- 7. Things and theories: the unstable presence of exhibited objects / Chris Dorsett -- 8. Inexperienced museum visitors and how they negotiate contemporary art. A comparative study of two visitor-driven visual art presentations / Marijke Van Eeckhaut -- 9. Illuminating narratives: period rooms and tableaux vivants / Michael Katzberg -- 10. Magic objects/modern objects: heroes' house museums / Linda Young -- 11. 'Do not touch' - a discussion on the problems of a limited sensory experience with objects in a gallery or museum context / Helen Saunderson -- 12. Living objects: a theory of museological objecthood / Wing Yan Vivian Ting -- 13. The poetic triangle of objects, people and writing creatively: using museum collections to inspire linguistic creativity and poetic understanding / Nikki Clayton and Mark Goodwin -- 14. Location and intervention: visual practice enabling a synchronic view of artefacts and sites / Shirley Chubb -- Part III: The uses of objects in museum representations. Introduction / Amy Jane Barnes -- 15. Spectacle and archive in two contemporary art museums in Spain / Roger Sansi -- 16. Playing dress-up: inhabiting imagined spaces through museum objects / Julia Petrov -- 17. Material object and immaterial collector: is there room for the donor-collector discourse in the museal space? / Caroline Bergeron -- 18. Exhibiting absence in the museum / Helen Rees Leahy -- 19. Arctic 'relics': the construction of history, memory and narratives at the National Maritime Museum / Claire Warrior -- Part IV: Objects and difficult subjects Introduction / Julia Petrov -- 20. Challenged pasts and the museum: the case of Ghanaian kente / Malika Kraamer -- 21. Standardizing difference: the materiality of ethnic minorities in the museums of the Peoples' Republic of China / Marzia Varutti -- 22. Displaying the Communist Other: perspectives on the exhibition and interpretation of Communist visual culture / Amy Jane Barnes -- 23. Reconsidering images: using the farm security administration photographs as objects in history exhibitions / Meighen Katz -- 24. (Im)material practices in museums / Alice Semedo -- 25. Heritage as pharmakon and the muses as deconstruction: - problematising curative museologies and heritage healing / Beverley Butler -- Afterword: A conversation with Sue Pearce Amy Jane Barnes and Jennifer Walklate."

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  • "The Thing about Museums Objects and Experience, Representation and Contestation"@en
  • "The thing about museums : objects and experience, representation and contestation"
  • "The thing about museums : objects and experience, representation and contestation : essays in honour of professor Susan M. Pearce"
  • "The thing about museums : objects and experience, representation and contestation ; essays in honour of professor Susan M. Pearce"
  • "The thing about museums objects and experience, representation and contestation : essays in honour of professor Susan M. Pearce"

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