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For centuries, M ori treasures, or taonga, have been some of the most prized, popular and precious objects held in museums around the world. From Te Maori to Te Papa and beyond, initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand over the last 30 years have continued to provide new models for m ...
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This is a comprehensive assessment of the display of Maori culture from the 19th century to today - it traces the long journey from "curio to specimen, artefact, art and toanga (treasure). Ranging across museums, world fairs, fine art and tourism this worl fuses museum studies, a ...
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In recent years, museums have been under attack, with critics arguing that they are little more than relics and promoters of imperialism. Could it be that the encyclopedic museum has outlived its usefulness? In this book, the author, president and director of the Art Institute of ...
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Drawing together articles on theoretical and practice-based developments in the field, this book investigates the linked areas of management and marketing in the museum. The articles deal with the museum context of management and how marketing and management practices must take a ...
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This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional motivations that eventual ...
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Taking 20th-century Papua New Guinea as its focus, this work charts the changes in colonial relationships as they were expressed through material culture. It analyzes the insights that museum collections can provide into social relations.
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'Dry Store Room No. 1' is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination.
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Designed as a primer for the museum or gallery visit required in introductory art courses, this book is a combination reference, workbook, directory, and notepad.
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An examination of the problems experienced by house museums, this book offers practical advice and solutions which can easily be implemented. Its useful lessons include governance, where to find help and care of collections.
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This book explores the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and its collections. Thousands of people collected objects for the Museum between its foundation in 1884 and 1945, and they, and the objects they collected, provide a series of insights into the early history of archa ...
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