scholarly journals The dancing trees: objects, facts and ideas in museums. In From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence, ed. Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim Allen

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 183-194
Author(s):  
Erna Lilje ◽  
Jude Philp
Keyword(s):  
Museum Studies

Museum Studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 516-537
Author(s):  
Erica L. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Data Analyses

This chapter describes and discusses the major qualitative research methods used to study museums. These methods include analyses of visual displays and reconstructions; interviews with museum visitors, professionals, and stakeholders; as well as ethnographic fieldwork in museum settings. The chapter explores how these methods can be adapted to the study of exhibits, galleries, programs, and museums as knowledge-generating institutions from a range of case studies conducted by museum practitioners, anthropologists, historians, and other museum studies scholars at a variety of museums. Case studies are drawn from works that examine ethnographic, natural history, art and community museums as well as historic sites. Approaches to research design, data analyses, and writing up are also examined.

Fragments of the Holocaust

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Duindam
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
World War ◽  
Holocaust Memory ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
A Site

Why do we attach so much value to sites of Holocaust memory, if all we ever encounter are fragments of a past that can never be fully comprehended? David Duindam examines how the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theater in Amsterdam used for the registration and deportation of nearly 50,000 Jews, fell into disrepair after World War II before it became the first Holocaust memorial museum of the Netherlands. Fragments of the Holocaust: The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg as a Site of Memory combines a detailed historical study of the postwar period of this site with a critical analysis of its contemporary presentation by placing it within international debates concerning memory, emotionally fraught heritage and museum studies. A case is made for the continued importance of the Hollandsche Schouwburg and other comparable sites, arguing that these will remain important in the future as indexical fragments where new generations can engage with the memory of the Holocaust on a personal and affective level.

scholarly journals Sharon Macdonald and Paul Basu (red.): Exhibition Experiments

1970 ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Mette Houlberg Rung
Keyword(s):  
Museum Studies

Antologien ”Exhibition Experiments” er redi- geret af englænderne Sharon Macdonald og Paul Basu, og kan ses i forlængelse af en række af publikationer, der på forskellig vis forsøger at forstå museet og de museale processer i det 21 århundrede. Bogen sætter fokus på udstillingsvirksomhed, og er et konstruktivt og inspirerende bidrag til diskussionen om, hvordan man kan udvikle og gentænke udstillingen som medie. I stedet for at betragte udstillingen som et instrument til videreformidling af eksisterende information, ses den som et rum, hvor der eksperimenteres og genereres ny viden. I denne anmeldelse perspektiveres bogen og nogle af de centrale problemstillinger, som den præsenterer, bliver diskuteret. Sharon Macdonald og Paul Basu er henholdsvis professor i social antropologi ved Manc- hester University og lektor i antropologi ved Sussex University. Begge har udgivet flere museologiske publikationer, herunder Macdonalds ”Companion to Museum Studies” fra 2006.

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