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