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Museum Practice
Conal McCarthy (Edited by)
9781119642077, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 20 February 2020
696 pages
24.4 x 17 x 4.3 cm, 1.225 kg
MUSEUM PR ACTICE Edited by CONAL McCARTHY Museum Practice covers the professional work carried out in museums and art galleries of all types, including the core functions of management, collections, exhibitions, and programs. Some forms of museum practice are familiar to visitors, yet within these diverse and complex institutions many practices are hidden from view, such as creating marketing campaigns, curating and designing exhibitions, developing fundraising and sponsorship plans, crafting mission statements, handling repatriation claims, dealing with digital media, and more. Focused on what actually occurs in everyday museum work, this volume offers contributions from experienced professionals and academics that cover a wide range of subjects including policy frameworks, ethical guidelines, approaches to conservation, collection care and management, exhibition development and public programs. From internal processes such as leadership, governance and strategic planning, to public facing roles in interpretation, visitor research and community engagement and learning, each essential component of contemporary museum practice is thoroughly discussed.
List of Illustrations ix Editor xiii General Editors xiv Contributors xv Acknowledgments xvii Editors’Preface to Museum Practice and the International Handbooks of Museum Studies xix Introduction: Grounding Museum Studies: Introducing Practice xxvii Part I Priorities 1 1. The Essence of the Museum: Mission, Values, Vision 3 2. Governance: Guiding the Museum in Trust 27 3. Policies, Frameworks, and Legislation: The Conditions Under Which English Museums Operate 43 4. Reconceptualizing Museum Ethics for the Twenty‐First Century: A View from the Field 69 5. Museum Measurement: Questions of Value 97 6. Developing Audiences for the Twenty‐First‐Century Museum 123 Part II Resources 153 7. Balancing Mission and Money: Critical Issues in Museum Economics 155 8. Tate and BP – Oil and Gas as the New Tobacco?: Arts Sponsorship, Branding, and Marketing 179 9. From Idiosyncratic to Integrated: Strategic Planning for Collections 203 10. Collection Care and Management: History, Theory, and Practice 221 11. The Future of Collecting in “Disciplinary” Museums: Interpretive, Thematic, Relational 249 12. Managing Collections or Managing Content?: The Evolution of Museum Collections Management Systems 267 13. Conservation Theory and Practice: Materials, Values, and People in Heritage Conservation 293 Part III Processes 315 14. From Caring to Creating: Curators Change Their Spots 317 15. The Pendulum Swing: Curatorial Theory Past and Present 341 16. Planning for Success: Project Management for Museum Exhibitions 357 17. Museum Exhibition Tradecraft: Not an Art, but an Art to It 379 18. Museum Exhibition Practice: Recent Developments in Europe, Canada, and Australia 403 19. A Critique of Museum Restitution and Repatriation Practices 431 20. Rewards and Frustrations: Repatriation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral Remains by the National Museum of Australia 455 Part IV Publics 479 21. The “Active Museum”: How Concern with Community Transformed the Museum 481 22. Visitor Studies: Toward a Culture of Reflective Practice and Critical Museology for the Visitor‐Centered Museum 503 23. Translating Museum Meanings: A Case for Interpretation 529 24. Learning, Education, and Public Programs in Museums and Galleries 551 25. Reviewing the Digital Heritage Landscape: The Intersection of Digital Media and Museum Practice 577 Afterword: The Continuing Struggle for Diversity and Equality 599 Museum Practice and Mediation: An Afterword 613 Index 635
Conal McCarthy
David Fleming
Barry Lord, with Case Study by Rina Gerson
Sara Selwood and Stuart Davies
Janet Marstine, Jocelyn Dodd, and Ceri Jones
Carol A. Scott
Graham Black
Ted Silberberg and Gail Lord
Derrick Chong
James B. Gardner
John E. Simmons
Nick Merriman
Malcolm Chapman
Dean Sully
Ken Arnold
Halona Norton‐Westbrook
David K. Dean
Dan Spock
Linda Young, with Anne Whitelaw and Rosmarie Beier‐de Haan
Piotr Bienkowski
Michael Pickering
Elizabeth Crooke
Lee Davidson
Kerry Jimson
John Reeve and Vicky Woollard
Shannon Wellington and Gillian Oliver
Eithne Nightingale
Anthony Alan Shelton
Subject Areas: Museology & heritage studies [GM]
