Inside the Lost Museum : : Curating, Past and Present / / Steven Lubar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Lubar, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 21 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Explore --; PART I. Collect --; 1. Why Collect? --; 2. Collectable --; 3. Acquisitions --; 4. In the Field --; 5. Who Collects? --; PART II. Preserve --; 6. Into the Storeroom --; 7. Paperwork --; 8. The Ethics of Objects --; PART III. Display --; 9. Objects, Stories, and Visitors --; 10. Objects on Display --; 11. Organizations and Juxtapositions --; 12. Explanations and Encounters --; 13. Setting the Scene --; 14. Turned Inside Out --; Part IV. Use --; 15. What Use Is a Museum? --; 16. Museums Make Communities --; 17. Learning From Things --; 18. Teaching with Things --; 19. The Promise of Museums --; Coda: Critique --; NOTES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ILLUSTRATION CREDITS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982901; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982901
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Steven Lubar.

Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building—through historical and contemporary examples, especially the lost but reimagined Jenks Museum at Brown University.