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Museum Collecting Lessons Steven Miller

Museum Collecting Lessons By Steven Miller

Museum Collecting Lessons by Steven Miller

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Museum Collecting Lessons explains how and why museums meet their fundamental duty to collect It is the first book of its kind to explore the diverse ways these unique institutions acquire what is preserved and used for exhibitions, programs, publications, and, online applications.

Museum Collecting Lessons Summary

Museum Collecting Lessons: Acquisition Stories from the Inside by Steven Miller

1. The book explains how and why museums meet their fundamental duty to collect. Taken together, the chapters included within the book provide fascinating insights into a wide variety of significant acquisitions and museum collecting initiatives.

2. The eleven chapters that make up the volume are written by museum practitioners working in art, history and science museums in the United States, Canada and India. This will ensure that the book will be of interest to aspiring, beginner, and experienced museum professionals around the world.

3. There are no directly competing titles, as other books about museum collecting have focused on just one specific museum, type of collecting or type of museum. This is the first book to provide a rich mix of examples of museum collecting in one place.

About Steven Miller

Steven Miller began his museum career in 1971. He has served as a curator, administrator, director, trustee, writer, consultant, and museum studies educator. For 16 years he was an adjunct professor teaching core courses with the Seton Hall University MA Program in Museum Professions, South Orange, New Jersey, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Making Sense of Your Community Museum Collection: Strategies for Stuff Management; 2. Collecting our Culture: Eeyou Cree Collecting at Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute; 3. Strategies for Acquiring Contemporary Art: Creativity and Collaboration; 4. Collecting Period Rooms: Frank Lloyd Wright's Francis W. Little House; 5. A New Museum Builds a Collection: How One Gift Leads to Others: The James A. Michener Museum of Art's Acquisition Success; 6. A Museum-Defining Acquisition: The Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; 7. Unpacking the Baggage: The Smooth Acquisition and Transfer of the Lee L. Forman Collection of Bags; 8. How We Got Our F-16 Fighter Falcon; 9. Community Collecting Conversations: Acquisition Stories, District Museum, Jorhat, India; 10. Collecting Nonverbal History Documents; 11. Barnum Brown's Bones; 12. Conclusion

Additional information

NGR9781032106427
9781032106427
1032106425
Museum Collecting Lessons: Acquisition Stories from the Inside by Steven Miller
Steven Miller
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-05-26
156
N/A
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