Mobile Museums : : collections in circulation / / edited by Felix Driver, Mark Nesbitt, Caroline Cornish.

• TeilnehmendeR: Driver, Felix,; Nesbitt, Mark,; Cornish, Caroline,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 352 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Includes index.

Mobile Museums presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present.

Table of Contents

Introduction: mobilising and re-mobilising museum collections -- 1 Plant artefacts then and now: reconnecting biocultural collections in Amazonia -- 2 Re-mobilising colonial collections in decolonial times: exploring the latent possibilities of N. W. Thomas's West African collections -- 3 Circuits of accumulation and loss: intersecting natural histories of the 1928 USDA New Guinea Sugarcane Expedition's collections -- 4 Kew's mobile museum: economic botany in circulation -- 5 Illustrating anthropological knowledge: texts, images and duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution and Pitt Rivers Museum -- 6 Expeditionary collections: Haslar Hospital Museum and the circulation of public knowledge, 1815-1855 7 Mobile botany: education, horticulture and commerce in New York botanical gardens, 1890s-1930s -- 8 Plants on the move: Kew Gardens and the London schoolroom -- 9 Circulations of paradise (or, how to use a specimen to best personal advantage) -- 10 Circulation as negotiation and loss: Egyptian antiquities from British excavations, 1880-present -- 11 Colonising memory: Indigenous heritage and community engagement -- 12 The flow of things: mobilising museum collections of nineteenth-century Fijian liku (fibre skirts) and veiqia (female tattooing) -- Afterword: what goes around, comes around mobility's modernity -- Index.