Exploring Emotion, Care, and Enthusiasm in “Unloved” Museum Collections /

Exploring Emotion, Care, and Enthusiasm in “Unloved” Museum Collections / / ed. by Rhianedd Smith, Alison Hess, Anna Woodham.

Millions of items are held in museum collections around the world but many museums have very few visitors to their stored collections. These stored objects are certainly not neglected by their professional custodians, and they are loved with a great intensity by some curators and enthusiasts. Howeve...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Carnall, Mark,
Church, Francesca,
Hess, Alison,
Kelleher, Shane,
Macleod, Mark,
Smith, Rhianedd,
Watson, Sheila,
Woodall, Alexandra,
Woodham, Anna,
HerausgeberIn:
Hess, Alison,
Smith, Rhianedd,
Woodham, Anna,
Place / Publishing House:Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • SECTION ONE: ENTHUSIASTS AND CARE FOR COLLECTIONS
  • Chapter 1. Unlocking the Meanings of Collections: Expertise, Care, and the Science Museum’s Locks and Fastenings Collection
  • Chapter 2. “A Hawk from a Handsaw”: Investigating Enthusiasm for Rural Hand Tools
  • Chapter 3. What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Care and an “Unloved” Collection
  • SECTION TWO: “UNLOVED” COLLECTIONS
  • Chapter 4. “Storehouses of Unimagined Treasures”: Delightful Rummaging and Artists’ Responses to “Unloved” Collections
  • Chapter 5. No Data, No Use? Changing Use and Valuation of Natural History Collections
  • Chapter 6. Getting to Grips with Medical Handling Collections: Medical Memories, Specialist Knowledge, and Community Engagement around “Unloved” Objects
  • SECTION THREE: EMOTIONAL RESEARCH
  • Chapter 7. Emotions and Lost Objects
  • Chapter 8. Care- Full Academic Labour: Encountering Care in Collections- Based Research
  • Volume Conclusion: How to Put a Little Love in Your Stored Collection
  • Index

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