11. New Considerations in Afro-European Museum Cooperation in Africa. The Examples of PREMA and Other Initiatives in Ghana

2018 ◽  
pp. 165-178
Keyword(s):  
European Museum

Lost and Found

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-64
Author(s):  
Bennetta Jules-Rosette ◽  
J.R. Osborn
Keyword(s):  
African Art ◽  
Museum Exhibits ◽  
Lost And Found ◽  
Evidential Support ◽  
Front Stage ◽  
Historical Antecedents ◽  
African Intellectuals ◽  
European Museum

This chapter examines systems of classification supporting the front stage of museum exhibits. It traces the roots of European museum taxonomies found in colonial expositions and early museums of African art. It discusses the floorplans and displays strategies of French museums and contrasts them with theories proposed by anthropologists and African intellectuals. Museum classifications reflect inherited epistemologies and those of their era. These classifications are translated into labels and strategies for staging displays exhibitions, and expositions, that is, into exhibitionary complexes. The chapter concludes with a discussion of reconfigurations of the museum landscape with contrasting evidential support. It explores French museum closings and their deconstruction in relationship to historical antecedents and problems of labeling and reinstallation.

Curatorship

Anthropology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Lubar ◽  
Allyson LaForge
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Curatorial Practice ◽  
Shared Authority ◽  
Traditional Work ◽  
European Museum

The traditional work of curators—collecting, caring for, researching, and exhibiting artifacts in museums—has expanded in many directions in recent years. Curators today connect as well as collect. They work with several diverse communities: source communities, museum visitors, and researchers. While much of their work remains rooted in material culture and museums, they increasingly work with intangible cultural heritage and consider digital manifestations of culture. This bibliography offers historical and contemporary as well as theoretical and practical perspectives on curatorship. It begins with a listing of journals and organizations useful to scholars of curation and museum practitioners. The following sections, which list foundational texts and books of collected essays on museum curatorship, offer an introduction and overview of the field. Next is a section providing historical perspective on curatorship, including writing on important museums and exhibitions. This history is followed by sections describing the dual objects of curatorial work: intangible cultural heritage and material culture. Next is a section on curatorial work, divided into subsections that address theory, practice, and digital approaches. Decolonizing curatorial practice, which involves challenging museums’ colonial practices and including Indigenous people in the conservation, interpretation, and display of their material culture and histories, is a necessary corrective to and extension of this traditional work; subsections include shared authority, repatriation and restitution, and indigenizing curation. The bibliography ends with perhaps the most important topic: curatorial ethics. The focus is on anthropological curatorship, but we have included material from nearby fields, including art and history curatorship, when the additional perspective seems useful. The geographical focus is on the United States, and to a lesser extent Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, with a few entries describing European museum work. There are several other bibliographies in the Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology that complement this one. See the separate Oxford Bibliographies articles Museum Anthropology, Cultural Resource Management, and Public Archaeology.

European Museum reports

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-129
Author(s):  
Xavier Perrot
Keyword(s):  
European Museum

scholarly journals Full steam ahead: Biochemical Society Meeting No. 675 Joint with The Physiological Society, University of York

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Author(s):  
Gary Burd
Keyword(s):  
Society Meeting ◽  
Bullet Train ◽  
The University ◽  
Successful Collaboration ◽  
Evening Star ◽  
European Museum

The University of York provided the venue for this highly successful collaboration between the Biochemical Society and The Physiological Society, with over 800 attendees enjoying ten colloquia on subjects relevant to both societies. The meeting dinner was held at the National Railway Museum in York, which holds the award European Museum of the Year 2001. Diners were treated to a fabulous meal in the austere company of some of the country's finest locomotives, including the Mallard (pictured above), Evening Star, a reproduction of Stephenson's Rocket and Eurostar. New at the museum is the first ever Bullet train to be displayed outside of Japan. The report below is only a snapshot of what went on at the York Meeting. For papers from the speakers, take a look at Biochemical Society Transactions 30 (2) to be published in May.

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