Deaccessioning Museum Objects
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Deaccessioning And Its Discontents
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Author : Martin Gammon
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-07-24
Deaccessioning And Its Discontents written by Martin Gammon and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-24 with Art categories.
The first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum practice. Museums often stir controversy when they deaccession works—formally remove objects from permanent collections—with some critics accusing them of betraying civic virtue and the public trust. In fact, Martin Gammon argues in Deaccessioning and Its Discontents, deaccession has been an essential component of the museum experiment for centuries. Gammon offers the first critical history of deaccessioning by museums from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and exposes the hyperbolic extremes of “deaccession denial”—the assumption that deaccession is always wrong—and “deaccession apology”—when museums justify deaccession by finding some fault in the object—as symptoms of the same misunderstanding of the role of deaccessions in proper museum practice. He chronicles a series of deaccession events in Britain and the United States that range from the disastrous to the beneficial, and proposes a typology of principles to guide future deaccessions. Gammon describes the liquidation of the British Royal Collections after Charles I's execution—when masterworks were used as barter to pay the king's unpaid bills—as establishing a precedent for future deaccessions. He recounts, among other episodes, U.S. Civil War veterans who tried to reclaim their severed limbs from museum displays; the 1972 “Hoving affair,” when the Metropolitan Museum of Art sold a number of works to pay for a Velázquez portrait; and Brandeis University's decision (later reversed) to close its Rose Art Museum and sell its entire collection of contemporary art. An appendix provides the first extensive listing of notable deaccessions since the seventeenth century. Gammon ultimately argues that vibrant museums must evolve, embracing change, loss, and reinvention.
Deaccessioning Museum Objects
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Author : Jennifer Durrant
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-04-11
Deaccessioning Museum Objects written by Jennifer Durrant and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-11 with Art categories.
Deaccessioning Museum Objects is an innovative exploration of museum collections management practice and the ethical complexities of object disposal within the contemporary social context. Disposal of objects from museum collections aids in the creation of dynamic and sustainable institutions but can be perceived as a betrayal of public trust and professional duty. Written by an experienced museum professional and researcher, Jennifer Durrant delves into the historical development of disposal to offer insight into the fundamental transience of museum collections. Durrant explains the ethical timeliness and social responsibility of object removal, presenting real‐life examples and practical models for transparency creation to show how deaccessioning can be brought to public view and understanding. Emphasising the interaction between professional practice, personal action, and the centrality of conscious reflection, Durrant helpfully investigates what ‘open and honest’ working entails and explores the creation of transparency to museum practices through the lens of disposal. The combination of theory and practice within Deaccessioning Museum Objects is essential reading for academics and students of museums and heritage, and practitioners in museums, galleries, libraries, and archives around the world.
Deaccessioning Museum Objects
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Author : Jenny Durrant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025
Deaccessioning Museum Objects written by Jenny Durrant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025 with Museums categories.
"Deaccessioning Museum Objects explores disposal as a museum practice and explores the ethical timeliness of deaccessioning within the current social context. It also explores the concept of 'transparency' and its application to museum work through the lens of disposal. Written by an experienced museum professional and researcher, this book delves into the historical development of disposal and offers unique insights into the transient nature of museum collections. Even though the deaccessioning of objects can create dynamic, sustainable institutions, it is also often perceived as a betrayal of public trust and professional duty and thus disposal has often been undertaken away from public attention. Jennifer Durrant explains why practitioners need to be open about the practice, as advocated by sectoral ethics, and explain why it is timely and socially responsible. Using real-life examples and introducing two practical models for transparency creation, Durrant shows how disposal practices can be brought to public view and understanding. Emphasising the interaction between professional practice and personal action, and the centrality of professional reflection, Durrant also explains what 'open and honest' working means for practitioner and institution. Deaccessioning Museum Objects will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of museums and heritage. It will also appeal to practitioners who are working in GLAMs and at heritage sites around the world"-- Provided by publisher.
Heritage Futures
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Author : Rodney Harrison
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2020-07-28
Heritage Futures written by Rodney Harrison and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with Art categories.
Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the future is rarely reflected upon. Heritage Futures draws on research undertaken over four years by an interdisciplinary, international team of 16 researchers and more than 25 partner organisations to explore the role of heritage and heritage-like practices in building future worlds. Engaging broad themes such as diversity, transformation, profusion and uncertainty, Heritage Futures aims to understand how a range of conservation and preservation practices across a number of countries assemble and resource different kinds of futures, and the possibilities that emerge from such collaborative research for alternative approaches to heritage in the Anthropocene. Case studies include the cryopreservation of endangered DNA in frozen zoos, nuclear waste management, seed biobanking, landscape rewilding, social history collecting, space messaging, endangered language documentation, built and natural heritage management, domestic keeping and discarding practices, and world heritage site management.
Deaccessioning Museum Objects
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Author : Jennifer Durrant
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2025
Deaccessioning Museum Objects written by Jennifer Durrant and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025 with Art categories.
Deaccessioning Museum Objects is an innovative exploration of museum collections management practice and the ethical complexities of object disposal within the contemporary social context. Disposal of objects from museum collections aids in the creation of dynamic and sustainable institutions but can be perceived as a betrayal of public trust and professional duty. Written by an experienced museum professional and researcher, Jennifer Durrant delves into the historical development of disposal to offer insight into the fundamental transience of museum collections. Durrant explains the ethical timeliness and social responsibility of object removal, presenting real-life examples and practical models for transparency creation to show how deaccessioning can be brought to public view and understanding. Emphasising the interaction between professional practice, personal action, and the centrality of conscious reflection, Durrant helpfully investigates what 'open and honest' working entails and explores the creation of transparency to museum practices through the lens of disposal. The combination of theory and practice within Deaccessioning Museum Objects is essential reading for academics and students of museums and heritage, and practitioners in museums, galleries, libraries, and archives around the world.
A Deaccession Reader
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Author : Stephen E. Weil
language : en
Publisher: American Alliance of Museums
Release Date : 1997
A Deaccession Reader written by Stephen E. Weil and has been published by American Alliance of Museums this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Business & Economics categories.
Good museum management requires a carefully considered decision as to whether a regular means of culling the collection serves the museum's best interest. This collection of texts drawn from journals and other professional publications looks at both positive and negative views of deaccessioning. Eleven articles focus primarily on the experiences of American museums, but also provide advice for English institutions, a case history from Canada, and an international overview of legal and professional notions about cultural property and museum collections. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Cl Mentine Deliss
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Author : Clémentine Deliss
language : en
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Release Date : 2020-07-15
Cl Mentine Deliss written by Clémentine Deliss and has been published by Hatje Cantz Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-15 with Art categories.
For quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has become a topic of discussion, as has the contentious history of their collections, which have come about through colonial appropriation. Clearly, this cannot continue. That the situation can be different is something that Clémentine Deliss explores in her current publication. She offers an intriguing mix of autobiographically-informed novel and conceptual thesis on contemporary art and anthropology. Reflections on her own work while she was Director of Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) are interwoven with the explorations of influential filmmakers, artists and writers. She introduces the Metabolic Museum as an interventionist laboratory for remediating ethnographic collections for future generations. CLÉMENTINE DELISS has achieved international renown as a curator, cultural historian and publisher of artist's books. In her role as Director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, as a curator, and as a professor and researcher at eminent institutes and academies, she focuses on transdisciplinary and transcultural exchanges. She is Associate Curator of KW Berlin and Guest Professor at the Academy of Arts, Hamburg.
Active Collections
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Author : Elizabeth Wood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-07
Active Collections written by Elizabeth Wood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Social Science categories.
In recent years, many museums have implemented sweeping changes in how they engage audiences. However, changes to the field’s approaches to collections stewardship have come much more slowly. Active Collections critically examines existing approaches to museum collections and explores practical, yet radical, ways that museums can better manage their collections to actively advance their missions. Approaching the question of modern museum collection stewardship from a position of "tough love," the authors argue that the museum field risks being constrained by rigid ways of thinking about objects. Examining the field’s relationship to objects, artifacts, and specimens, the volume explores the question of stewardship through the dissection of a broad range of issues, including questions of "quality over quantity," emotional attachment, dispassionate cataloging, and cognitive biases in curatorship. The essays look to insights from fields as diverse as forest management, library science, and the psychology of compulsive hoarding, to inform and innovate collection practices. Essay contributions come from both experienced museum professionals and scholars from disciplines as diverse as psychology, education, and history. The result is a critical exploration that makes the book essential reading for museum professionals, as well as those in training.
Exchanging Objects
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Author : Catherine A. Nichols
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2021-04-01
Exchanging Objects written by Catherine A. Nichols and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-01 with Art categories.
As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as “duplicate specimens,” making them potential candidates for exchange. This historical form of what museum professionals would now call deaccessioning considers the intellectual and technical requirement of classifying objects in museums, and suggests that a deeper understanding of past museum practice can inform mission-driven contemporary museum work.
Deaccessioning Today
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Author : Steven Miller
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2018-03-16
Deaccessioning Today written by Steven Miller and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-16 with Business & Economics categories.
Deaccessioning Today: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive international overview of deaccessioning. Author Steven Miller covers reasons for removing items from collections, looks at how and why deaccessioning occurs in museums around the world, and discusses recommended disposition procedures. Collections make museums unique. Getting and keeping physical evidence of the human and natural world, and doing so for the long term, is not done by any other organizations, entities, agencies, etc. This characteristic is essential to accept and understand regardless of a museum’s operations. It is especially important when considering what to subtract from collections. Features include: In-depth coverage of reasons for deaccessioning including ownership disputes, untenable conservation, redundancy, fakes and forgeries, source of income, safety reasons;Processes for both museum-initiated and externally-initiated deaccessions;Disposition options including sale, gift, exchange, demotion, destruction, and return;Controversies surrounding deaccessions; Deaccessioning Today is for museum professionals, those who are responsible for museums (such as trustees, volunteers, elected officials, and donors), as well as the general public with an interest in how museums operate and why.