collections? What kinds of stories are necessarily erased for the purpose of creating a corporate narrative? How are the objects displayed within the walls made relevant? To whom are they relevant? And for what purpose are they relevant? 1 These research
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The Inertia of Collections
Changes against the Grain in the Rosenlew Museum of Pori, Finland
Francisco Martínez
Analyzing Museum Collections in Scandinavia
New Insights in Revised Modernity and Its Implications on Archaeological Material
Niklas Ytterberg
. One part comprises the universities, which are predominantly theoretical. Another part consists of the museums, which mainly manage the collections but also do some research, although to varying extents. Somewhere in between we find the excavating
Collections without End
The Ghostly Presences of Captain Matthew McVicker-Smyth and his Western Australian Mineral Collection in the State Library of Western Australia
Andrea Witcomb and Alistair Patterson
The discovery of five photographs in 2018 in the State Library of Western Australia led us to the existence of a forgotten private museum housing the collection of Captain Matthew McVicker Smyth in early-twentieth-century Perth. Captain Smyth was responsible for the selling of Nobel explosives used in the agriculture and mining industries. The museum contained mineral specimens in cases alongside extensive, aesthetically organized displays of Australian Aboriginal artifacts amid a wide variety of ornaments and decorative paintings. The museum reflects a moment in the history of colonialism that reminds us today of forms of dispossession, of how Aboriginal people were categorized in Australia by Western worldviews, and of the ways that collectors operated. Our re-creation brings back into existence a significant Western Australian museum and opens up a new discussion about how such private collections came into existence and indeed, in this instance, about how they eventually end.
Engaging Dialogues
Reframing Africa at the Royal Ontario Museum
Silvia Forni
troubled exhibitionary and relational history involving an encyclopedic museum, its collections from Africa, and the African Canadian communities of the Greater Toronto Area. The history and the complicated intellectual, relational, and affective issues
Archaeology and Ethnographic Collections
Disentangling Provenance, Provenience, and Context in Vanuatu Assemblages
James L. Flexner
untapped source of information that can be used to explore basic questions necessary to the larger theories we build about the past. In exchange, archaeological investigations of museum collections provide opportunities for museums to increase their
Integrating Research and Collections Management
The Ho‘omaka Hou Research Initiative at the Bishop Museum
Mara A. Mulrooney, Charmaine Wong, Kelley Esh, Scott Belluomini, and Mark D. McCoy
Museums throughout the world house invaluable collections of cultural and natural heritage, and recent efforts to unlock the potential of existing museum collections are manifest in various ways (King, this volume). One of these is the use of
Democratizing the Digital Collection
New Players and New Pedagogies in Three-Dimensional Cultural Heritage
Jane-Heloise Nancarrow
nontraditional methodologies relating to three-dimensional digital museum collections can renegotiate the material properties of objects, and allow for experimentation within heritage, anthropology, and archaeology. Yet while digital modeling, virtual reality
Building the Femorabilia Special Collection
Methodologies and Practicalities
Nickianne Moody
danger of being lost and spoken for only by the academics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries who have had access to these texts as they were published, if not to the culture itself. The Collection and its Purpose The Femorabilia Collection of
Comparative Colonialism and Collections-Based Archaeological Research
Dig Less, Catalog More
Julia A. King
By now, it’s a truism that collections-based archaeological research is a good thing, a productive enterprise yielding new and sometimes transformative discoveries about the past. Indeed, who can forget how Helene Valladas and her colleagues (1988
Introduction
Engaging Anthropological Legacies toward Cosmo-optimistic Futures?
Sharon Macdonald, Henrietta Lidchi, and Margareta von Oswald
collections, can play a role in supporting more convivial and cosmopolitan relationships between people. In particular, it considers whether the colonial imaginaries and relations that propelled the formation of these museums and collections—which we call