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Islam at the Tropenmuseum
This is the fifth volume of a series of ten books that discuss the collections of the Tropenmuseum and the histories and stories that accompany them. The books elucidate the often hidden backgrounds of a museum collection, discussing objects within their original context, social histories and their contemporary meaning. The main emphasis lies on the history of each collection, with its different collecting and presentation practices placed in a particular time and place. Each volume is richly illustrated with objects and photographs from the Tropenmuseum collection.
Collecting at Cultural Crossroads
Discussion of the museum's collections, the results of recent policies of collecting, and the framework for future policies. In terms of future research and acquisition, the museum has chosen themes such as popular culture, popular art, modern art and immaterial heritage. In addition, the focus will be on the discussion around human remains, the ethics of collecting and redistributing collections, the disclosure of the photographic collections, maintenance, digital accessibility of collections, and the use of websites.
Africa at the Tropenmuseum
"The book elucidate the often hidden backgrounds of a museum collection, discussing objects within their original context, social histories and their contemporary meaning. The emphasis lies on the history of the ... collection, with its different collecting and presentation practices placed in a particular time and place."--Cover p. [4].
Oceania at the Tropenmuseum
Oceania at the Tropenmuseum is not in the first place a book on art from Oceania, but rather a treatise on the coming into existence and growth of a well-known Oceanic collection, which started at the beginning of the 20th century with the bringing together of the collections of the Colonial Museum in the Dutch provincial town of Haarlem and the ethnographic collection of Artis, the Amsterdam Zoo. The objects were, then and later on, brought together by early explorers, travellers, scientific expeditions, missionaries, Dutch government officials, ethnologists and collectors, most of them within the context of Dutch colonial presence in New Guinea, from where the majority of objects originate. During the last hundred years the intellectual approach to the collection changed from evidences of cultures in far-away places to the cultural heritage of world citizens, whose objects of art and material culture has been amassed during the colonial period of Western history. This richly illustrated book emphasizes this historical context and the way the objects were collected and presented to the public until today.
Capturing Museum Knowledge
For many institutions, it seems only logical that their collection or operational information is recorded digitally. The possibilities and applications seem endless. Office automation has been introduced in almost all museums in the Netherlands. However, some Dutch museums have not yet formulated an information policy or reserved a separate budget for IT, and IT is still insufficiently incorporated in Dutch museums as part of their policy. This publication describes how, over the course of twenty years, the Tropen museum has developed from a completely analogue institution to a museum where digital archiving is central and forms part of all working processes. All the ups and downs of twenty years of computerisation and digital archiving of the Tropenmuseum collections are described here. This publication can be used by heritage institutions as a case study in the field of digital data storage for collections and may possibly offer useful ideas for their own digitisation processes. Book jacket.
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Physical Anthropology Reconsidered
This publication describes and discusses the collection of human remains kept in Amsterdam’s Tropenmuseum. It is based on an inventory of the museum’s physical anthropological collection, collected between 1915 and 1964, and also refers to objects made from, or with, human remains, as well as to anthropological photographs, field notes and other archival sources. The idea behind this Bulletin is to contribute to the debate on the significance of physical anthropological collections kept in museums around the world, using the Tropenmuseum collection as a case in point. Why did the collections develop? What was their significance and what is their significance today? Who is the rightful owner? Who has, or should have, the authority to make decisions regarding the future of these collections, including where they should end up? For the Tropenmuseum, these are questions of great relevance, especially to the relationship between cultural and physical anthropology, and can be answered in a dialogue between various stakeholders.
A Passion for Indonesian Art
Georg Tilmann was a Jewish banker who left Germany in the early 1930s to settle in the Netherlands where he became a passionate collector of Indonesian art. Tillmann also made a name for himself with his publications on the evolution of textile designs, comparing their motifs and tracing the connections between the various peoples of Southeast Asia. A Passion Indonesian Art documents Tillmann's collection, illustrating textiles, sculptures, weaponry, religious objects, and other artefacts. One of Tillmann's publications, translated from the Dutch, is also included.
