Book ID: CBB022741298

Mobile Museums: Collections in Circulation (2021)

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Driver, Felix (Editor)
Mark Nesbitt (Editor)
Cornish, Caroline (Editor)


UCL Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 372
Language: English

How did the process of the circulation re-examine, inform, and unsettle common assumptions about the way museum collections have evolved over time and space? Mobile Museums presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, both past and present. It brings together a diverse array of international scholars and curators from a variety of disciplines to consider the mobility of collections, especially in the context of Indigenous community engagement. By foregrounding the question of circulation, the book represents a paradigm shift in the understanding of the history and future uses of museum collections. Taking on a global perspective and addressing a variety of types of collection, including the botanical, ethnographic, economic, and archaeological, the book helps us to understand why the mobility of museum collections was a fundamental aspect of their history—and why it continues to matter today.

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Authors & Contributors
Daniel Gamito-Marques
MacKinney, Anne
Thomas C. Cornillie
Rice, Carla
Manning, Dolleen Tisawii'ashii
Helena Gonçalves
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
The Journal of Transport History
Technology and Culture
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Publishers
Éditions Favre
Coédition Artlys
Springer International Publishing
Pennsylvania State University Press
Manchester University Press
Concepts
Museums
Museum exhibits
Collections
Museum collections management
Public demonstration
Biological specimens
People
Oddon, Yvonne
Rivet, Paul
Yarrell, William
Tillion, Germaine
Bocage, José Vicente Barbosa du
Taylor White
Time Periods
18th century
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Modern
Places
Great Britain
Lisbon (Portugal)
Florence (Italy)
United States
Canada
Geneva (Switzerland)
Institutions
Science Museum, London
Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève
Universidade do Porto
McGill University (Canada)
Museu Bocage, Museu Nacional de História Natural
Observatoire de Paris
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