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Exhibiting Maori: A History of Colonial Cultures of Display
   

Exhibiting Maori: A History of Colonial Cultures of Display (Paperback, illustrated edition)

By McCarthy, Conal

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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 ...

ISBN 9781877385339
Published 1 May 2007 by Te Papa Press
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Museums and Maori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice
  

Museums and Maori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice (Paperback)

By McCarthy, Conal

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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 ...

ISBN 9781877385704
Published 1 April 2011 by Te Papa Press
Interest Age Young Adults
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Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Paperback)

By Fortey, Richard

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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.

ISBN 9780007209897
Published 21 November 2008 by HarperCollins
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The McGraw-Hill Museum-goer's Guide

The McGraw-Hill Museum-goer's Guide (Trade Paperback)

By Wink, Richard; Phipps, Richard

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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.

ISBN 9780070387317
Published 1 September 1999 by McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
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Historic House Museums: A Practical Handbook for Their Care, Preservation and Management

Historic House Museums: A Practical Handbook for Their Care, Preservation and Management (Paperback, New edition)

By Butcher-Younghans, Sherry

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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.

ISBN 9780195106602
Published 8 February 1996 by Oxford University Press
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Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism

Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism (Hardback)

By Sheehan, James J.

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Combining the history of ideas, institutions and architecture, this study shows how the museum both reflected and shaped the place of art in German culture from the late-18th to the early-20th century. On a broader level, it explains the origin and character of the museum's role ...

ISBN 9780195135725
Published 1 September 2000 by Oxford University Press
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Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture of Natural History Museums

Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture of Natural History Museums (Paperback)

By Asma, Stephen T.

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The natural history museum is a place where the line between high and low culture effectively vanishes - where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre and our thirst for knowledge all blend together. But, as this text shows, there is more going on in these institutions t ...

ISBN 9780195163360
Published 1 March 2003 by Oxford University Press
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The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology (Hardback)

Edited by Skeates, Robin; McDavid, Carol; Carman, John

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Divided into four distinct sections and drawing across various disciplines, this volume seeks to reappraise the place of archaeology in the contemporary world by providing a series of essays that critically engage with both old and current debates in the field of public archaeolo ...

ISBN 9780199237821
Published 28 February 2012 by Oxford University Press
Interest Age Young Adults
Series Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology
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Antiquity on Display: Regimes of the Authentic in Berlin's Pergamon Museum

Antiquity on Display: Regimes of the Authentic in Berlin's Pergamon Museum (Hardback)

By Bilsel, Can

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Antiquity on Display offers an insight into the history of the imaginative reproductions of architecture housed in Berlin's Pergamon Museum and the shifting regimes of the authentic in museum displays from the nineteenth century to the present.

ISBN 9780199570553
Published 7 August 2012 by Oxford University Press
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Series Classical Presences
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Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-century Britain

Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-century Britain (Hardback)

By Alberti, Samuel J. M. M.

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An in-depth study of the variety of collections of human remains in Britain in the long nineteenth century

ISBN 9780199584581
Published 7 April 2011 by Oxford University Press
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