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Decolonizing Conservation
This book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture toward the impact that conservation work has on people’s lives. In doing so, it challenges the commodification of sacred objects and places by western conservation thought and attempts to decolonize conservation practice. To do so, the authors examine conservation activities at Maori marae—meeting houses—located in the US, Germany, and England and contrasts them with changes in marae conservation in New Zealand. A key case study is the Hinemihi meeting house, transported to England in the 1890s where it was treated as a curiosity by visitors to Clandon Park for over a century, and more recently as a focal point of cultural activity for UK Maori communities. Recent efforts to include various Maori stakeholder communities in the care of this sacred structure is a key example of community based conservation that can be replicated in heritage practice around the world.
Refashioning and Redress
This volume explores the conservation and presentation of dress in museums and beyond as a complex, collaborative process. Recognizing this process as a dynamic interaction of investigation, interpretation, intervention, re-creation, and display, Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress examines the ways in which these seemingly static exhibitions of “costume” or “fashion” are actively engaged in cultural production. The seventeen case studies included here reflect a broad range of practice and are presented by conservators, curators, makers, and researchers from around the world, exposing changing approaches and actions at different times and in different places. Ra...
Organizational Management
Effectively managing people, facilities, and partnerships can make or break an institution. Museum operations encompasses responsibility for the maintenance of your structure, the safety of your visitors, and the security of your staff and collections. This behind-the-scenes administrative effort is rarely what calls people to work in museums, but good organizational management keeps your institution functioning smoothly. This book examines how to find and work well with all the people who can contribute daily to the museum: paid staff, volunteers, and interns. It also provides many organizational resources such as an outline for an operations policy manual, sample job descriptions, and a sample partnership agreement.
The Tomb of Three Foreign Wives of Tuthmosis III
This book results from a collaborative effort to reconstruct the 15th-century BC tomb of three foreign wives of Tuthmosis III, discovered and robbed by villagers near Luxor in 1916. A general account was published by Herbert Winlock in 1948 (The Treasure of Three Egyptian Princesses, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). The present volume differs substantially in the type and extent of documentation provided and in interpretation. Verification is provided of tomb provenance for a number of objects, for example, while other objects previously thought to have come from the tomb are now considered forgeries. The text explores and documents the location of the tomb in the southwest valleys at Thebes; field work conducted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art at the site in 1988; art market finds alleged to have come from the tomb; and the names of the foreign wives and the life they might have led.
Funding of the arts and heritage
Funding of the arts and Heritage : Third report of session 2010-11, Vol. 2: Evidence
The Small Museum Toolkit
"As a small museum staff person, you are responsible for a lot, including areas outside of your expertise or training. You need a quick reference that makes the process of becoming a sustainable, valued institution less overwhelming. The Small Museum Toolkit is a collection of six books that serves as a launching point for small museum staff to pursue best practices and meet museum standards. These brief volumes address governance, financial management, human resources, audience relations, interpretation, and stewardship for small museums and historic sites." --Amazon.
Textile Structures
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Disaster Management in Archives, Libraries and Museums
This important book assesses the current state of disaster management in archives, libraries and museums in the UK and around the world, and provides recommendations for addressing current and future threats. Following an introductory outline of the topic and terminology, the authors provide a short history of the development of disaster management in the cultural heritage sector. They illustrate a basic framework for effective disaster management by reviewing disaster control plan practice from around the world. Through examining and identify the key issues affecting disaster management in archives, libraries and museums, the authors discuss a priority structure for future implementation. This book will be key reading for scholars and students of archive studies, library and information and museum management. It will also be extremely useful for professionals and policy makers involved in disaster management planning at a local and national level.
The Roman Baths and Macellum at Wroxeter
Excavations between 1955 and 1985 on the site of Roman Wroxeter on the River Severn in Shropshire focused on the southern part of an insula which contained the well-preserved remains of baths and a macellum . The Wroxeter macellum , which would have been the site of a street market for over 300 years, is one of the few examples to have been excavated anywhere within the Roman Empire. Much of the volume reports on the large assemblage of finds, many of which date to the original building campaign, including coins, small finds, brooches, gems, glass, pottery and industrial and environmental remains. The volume also includes a discussion of the results of excavations in the bathhouse during the 19th-century.
Hecho con Creative Commons
Este libro, en parte análisis, en parte manual y en parte una colección de estudios de caso, es una guía para ayudar al lector a compartir su conocimiento y creatividad con el mundo, sin por ello dejar de cuidar los aspectos operativos. Partiendo de un modelo propietario, del famoso ""Todos los derechos reservados"", hacia uno que permite a terceros copiar, reutilizar y modificar su trabajo es un gran cambio. Hecho con Creative Commons describe el cambio de mentalidad, los beneficios, y las prácticas a adoptar al ""abrirse"". Sostiene que el compartir es bueno para el negocio, particularmente para las compañías, organizaciones y personas creadoras a quienes les importan más factores que únicamente el económico. Hecho con Creative Commons es un libro lleno de consejos prácticos e historias inspiradoras, que presenta el verdadero significado de compartir.
