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- Addo, Giuseppina, et al.
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Encoding object-oriented democracy in Swedish museums : implementing method of the thing in exhibition-making
- 2023
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Ingår i: Museum Management and Curatorship. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0964-7775 .- 1872-9185. ; 38:1, s. 76-91
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As museums face conflicting demands on maintaining and caringfor their collections, opening for visitor engagement, and beingmore inclusive in their practice, new approaches are needed tomuseum work. This article introduces a democratic and inclusiveapproach focusing on the relational properties of the artefact–the Method of the Thing (Tigenes Metode). We use interviewswith different museum professionals in Sweden. The methodallows knowledge to emerge from the convergence of differentactors within and outside the museum who negotiate theirexpertise, (professional) roles and technical infrastructure of themuseum by foregrounding the object rather than the curators’story. We use the encoding/decoding model to discuss thestrengths and weaknesses of the method where centring theobject allows for a process of democratisation and polyvocality totake shape, thus allowing divergent narratives to emerge.
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- Dillon, C., et al.
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A clear view: crowdsourcing conservation needs in historic houses using visitor-led photo surveys
- 2019
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Ingår i: Museum Management and Curatorship. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-7775 .- 1872-9185. ; 34:2, s. 144-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In order to investigate visitor perceptions of dust, dirt and cleaning in historic houses, visitors were invited to be a 'researcher' for the day at an historic house and photograph what they felt to be a conservation need. This self-directed photo survey provided a useful communication tool between visitors, researchers, conservators and collection care staff. The method generated specific and actionable feedback about the focus of visitors' attention, their perception of risk in the historic environment and the impact of conservation plans on the visitor experience. Although the non-expert nature of visitors' observations was clear, there was new insight into what visitors find attractive, alarming or anomalous in a historic house environment. This accessible and inclusive method is potentially easily conducted by staff and volunteers involved in collections care. The results could be used to inform training, prioritisation, presentation and interpretation, as well as conservation.
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- Friberg, Zanna, et al.
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Using object biographies to understand the curation crisis : lessons learned from the museum life of an archaeological collection
- 2019
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Ingår i: Museum Management and Curatorship. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 0964-7775 .- 1872-9185. ; 34:4, s. 362-382
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The challenges related to the management of an increasing number of often poorly documented orphaned archaeological museum collections, described in literature as a 'curation crisis', are growing. This article proposes that writing collection-level object biographies (referring to the notion of Kopytoff) provides a means to generate useful insights into the longue duree of curatorial processes and to understand how curation crises emerge, how to avoid them, and how to manage orphaned, poorly documented and unorganised collections. The potential of using object biographies as a means to tackle the curation crisis is demonstrated through a study of the life history of the Valsgarde collection housed at Gustavianum - Uppsala University Museum relating to a well-known and often-cited archaeological site with the same name. It traces the management and use of the collection and scrutinises the causes and consequences of the problems of curating and making available archaeological collections.
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- Herlitz, Alexandra, 1978, et al.
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Assembling Arosenius : staging a digital archive
- 2018
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Ingår i: Museum Management and Curatorship. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-7775 .- 1872-9185. ; 33:5, s. 447-466
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Starting from the theoretical literature on narratives in archives and exhibitions this article investigates pedagogical approaches to letting museum visitors establish meaningful narratives through digitised archive material. The aspect of activating the audience in a museum exhibition is tightly linked to the curatorial approach and aims with an exhibition, but also to the possibilities that arise from the archival material and its digital form. As a case study, the project has focused on a painting by the Swedish artist Ivar Arosenius (1878–1909), exhibited in the Gothenburg Museum of Art. It has been associated with four different sets of digitised material from the Arosenius Archive, each made available through a distinct Augmented Reality interface. The different types of archival items contribute in different ways to the purposes of contextualisation and activation and have various affect values. An employment of archival material may contribute to creating affect by taking away the intermediary. The audience can naturally connect with the archive, thus providing it with a perceived direct contact to the artist. As the archival material, that is the original voices, is left uncommented, the audience can form its own conceptions of the treated aspect.
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- Illsley, William, 1989, et al.
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The edutainment scan: immersive media and its deployment in museums
- 2024
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Ingår i: Museum Management and Curatorship. - 0964-7775.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses the usage of immersive media in museum exhibitions, departing from the conviction that to maintain their credibility, museums need to work systematically with source criticism and evidence in mediation based on experiences and involving empathy, affect and sensory aspects of history. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, the article serves as a literature review of research informing the use of this immersive media in museum exhibitions. To this end, the article seeks to defragment a clustered field, wherein digitality pervades almost all heritage domains to provide a museum-specific overview. Second, and more applicable to a general audience, this article seeks to bridge the gap between research-led theory and museum practice. The review provides insight into recent research results that have been structured through six themes, namely technology readiness, immersivity and affect, intelligibility and agency, authenticity, source critique and scholarly contribution, and finally, pedagogy.
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- Lindqvist, Katja
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Museum finances: challenges beyond economic crises
- 2012
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Ingår i: Museum Management and Curatorship. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-7775 .- 1872-9185. ; 27:1, s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Economic crises directly and indirectly affect the financial health of museums. Despite this reality, however, analysing the impact of the economic cycle on museums has not generated much interest among researchers; to date published studies on the recent financial crisis and its reverberations in the museum sector are rare. This article, after acknowledging this lack of research, discusses specific challenges facing the financial management of museums and identifies the need for additional empirical research on the problems facing these institutions. Based on the author’s findings in published research and accumulated field experience, the article identifies income originating from various museum stakeholders and examines the vulnerability of these funds to fluctuations in the economy. While most museum income streams are not found to be particularly vulnerable to economic fluctuation, structural challenges for the financial management of museums do exist beyond economic crises. Therefore, the management of longterm, stakeholder relationships is a more reliable way of achieving financial stability than the implementation of short-term strategies to counter the effects of a recession and financial crises.
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- Näslund Dahlgren, Anna, Professor, 1967-
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Image metadata. From information management to interpretative practice
- 2022
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Ingår i: Museum Management and Curatorship. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-7775 .- 1872-9185.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study focuses the theoretical underpinning of the so-called semantic gap. By analysing the discourses on ideals and practices of image search and image use in terms of different understandings of ‘information’ and ‘communication’ this study illuminates the epistemological foundation of different ways of thinking about image descriptions. More precisely, it compares the discourse for metadata production, standards and information management with the discourse among humanities scholars. Close readings of handbooks, best practice and interviews with metadata producers discloses a discourse imbued by a mechanical model for communication and information transmission and a focus on objectivity and effectiveness. Simultaneously, interviews with humanities scholars and close readings of recent archival theory reveal another understanding of metadata as historically, institutionally, and even individually situated interpretations. As this study shows, attentiveness to the theoretical underpinning of the different ideals, wants and needs of metadata for images may illuminate why these differences exists.
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- O’Hagan, Lauren, 1991-
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Instagram as an exhibition space : reflections on digital remediation in the time of COVID-19
- 2021
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Ingår i: Museum Management and Curatorship. - : Routledge. - 0964-7775 .- 1872-9185. ; 36:6, s. 610-631
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores the impact of COVID-19 on a planned physical exhibition—Prize Books and Politics: Rethinking Working-Class Life in Edwardian Britain—and the experience of transforming it into a digital exhibition through the platform of Instagram. Using feedback from visitors in the form of likes, comments and surveys, I reflect on the exhibition in terms of its scope, content, visitor experience and overall success. I also outline the various potentials, constraints and opportunities of Instagram as an exhibition space and put forward recommendations on how it can be used to best advantage not as a replacement for physical exhibitions, but rather as a complement that can attract new audiences, capture real-time feedback and, thus, add multiple voices and stories to museum objects.
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- Wagner, Karin, 1959
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The mummy and the medical gaze: digital visualisations in the British Museum’s exhibition Ancient lives, new discoveries
- 2017
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Ingår i: Museum Management and Curatorship. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-7775 .- 1872-9185. ; 32:2, s. 160-175
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The British Museum’s exhibition Ancient lives, new discoveries (2014–2015) is analysed from the point of view of how medical imaging was used to convey new knowledge about mummies and ancient history to the general public. Real mummies were on display together with interactive visualisations. The dramaturgy was based on eight mummies’ life stories and the audience was encouraged to identify with the mummies as individuals. However, the article argues that the visualisations are not neutral tools, but are based on a certain way of seeing, what Michel Foucault called the ‘medical gaze’ – a distancing gaze applied by doctors that separates the body of the patient from the individual. The prestige and credibility claims of the visualisations are also discussed, as well as the performative and interactive aspects of the exhibition. The article concludes by suggesting that visitors could oscillate between two positions, peers and doctors, and that a third position, as a new kind of discoverer, is a latent possibility.
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- Walters (Finlay), Diana, 1961
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Approaches in museums towards disability in the United Kingdom and the United States
- 2009
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Ingår i: Museum Management & Curatorship. - 0964-7775. ; Vol.24:No.1, s. 29-46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is based on questionnaire surveys relating to responses to disability in museums. The findings show that despite anti-discrimination legislation and efforts by museums to improve access, the issue of attitude remains a key barrier to genuine inclusion for deaf and disabled people.
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