Museum Practice

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Museum Practice – The international handbooks of museum studies / edited by Conal McCarthy / general editors: Sharon Macdonald, Helen Rees Leahy. – First edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-9850-9 (cloth) | ISBN 978-1-119-64207-7 (pbk.)

1. Museums. 2. Museum exhibits. I. Macdonald, Sharon. II. Leahy, Helen Rees. AM5.I565 2015

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6.1 Music in the foyer at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

6.2 Rehanging one of the sixteenth-century Gideon Tapestries at the National Trust’s Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

6.3 Collection of ceramics at the Stoke Potteries Museum, UK

11.1 The Ancient Worlds gallery, Manchester Museum

14.1 Sleeping and Dreaming exhibition at Wellcome Collection in London

17.4 “F is for Fire Engine” in Minnesota A to Z, Minnesota History Center Museum, St. Paul

18.1 Model of Professor Baldwin Spencer, biologist, anthropologist, and honorary director of the National Museum of Victoria (1899–1928) on display in the exhibition Bunjilaka , 2001.

18.3 Exhibition Hitler and the Germans. Nation and Crime , Berlin 2010. German Historical Museum

18.4 Exhibition The Image of the “Other” in Germany and France from 1871 to the present , Paris 2008, Berlin 2009. German Historical Museum

18.6 Rebecca Belmore, Rising to the Occasion , 1987. Art Gallery of Ontario

18.7 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Founding Identities gallery

20.1 Dancers provide a traditional ceremonial “Welcome to country” upon the return of Larrakia ancestral remains, Mindil Beach, Darwin, Northern Territory, November 2002. National Museum of Australia

21.1 Detail of a panel from the My Treasure community exhibition (Mid-Antrim and Causeway Museum Service) displayed at Coleraine Town Hall, Northern Ireland, July–August 2013

23.1 The “Arrivals” display in the exhibition Blood, Earth, Fire | Whāngai Whenua Ahi Kā , which opened in 2006 at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

24.1 Formal education versus learning through participation: the Victorian classroom and teacher at the Ragged School Museum, London

24.2 Two participants examining a traditional coffee pot as a part of the Asian Women’s Documenting the Home project at the Geffrye Museum, London

A2.1 Walk among Worlds , an installation by Máximo González, October 12 – November 10, 2013, at the Fowler Museum, UCLA

A2.2 Opening performance of the community-based collaborative exhibition Death Is Just Another Beginning , National Museum of Taiwan, Taipei

A2.5 Exhibit Gallery, Kokdu Museum, Seoul

A2.6 Box of Promises , collaborative work between George Nuku (Māori) and Cory Douglas (Squamish/Haida) in the exhibition Paradise Lost? Great Hall, Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver

A2.8 Imprint , choreographed by Henry Daniel and Owen Underhill. Great Hall, Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver

0.1Integrated model of museum studies incorporating research, practice, training, and education

3.1Policy, funding, and accountability cascade: a map of central government’s support for the cultural sector

4.1Participant responses to the question: “Why this change in museum ethics now?”

4.2The three spheres of contemporary ethics discourse

4.3Participant responses to “Key issues that museums are grappling with in the twenty-first century”

4.4Participant responses to “The moral agency of museums”

4.5Participant responses to “Hopes and aspirations for shared guardianship”

4.6Reflections on the most insightful elements of the five workshops

4.7Reflections on the most challenging issues from the five workshops

6.1 Music in the foyer at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

6.2 Rehanging one of the sixteenth-century Gideon Tapestries at the National Trust property Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

6.3 Collection of ceramics at the Stoke Potteries Museum

6.4 Local participants in the Moving Here project visit New Walk Museum, Leicester

8.1 Invitation to Tate Britain Summer Party, June 21, 2010. From Not If But When: Culture beyond Oil , Platform, November 29, 2010

8.2 “Human Cost” by Liberate Tate, 2010. Photo from front cover of Not If But When: Culture beyond Oil , Platform, November 29, 2010

10.1 The x-axis (collection order and disorder)

10.2 The x-axis (collection order and disorder) and y-axis (collection growth and loss)

10.3 The x-axis (collection order and disorder), y-axis (collection growth and loss), and z-axis (preservation and deterioration)

11.1 The Ancient Worlds gallery, Manchester Museum

11.2 A botany assortment from the collections of the Manchester Museum

11.3 A “bioblitz” or collecting expedition for the Trees project, Whitworth Park, Manchester