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Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present

Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Steven LubarPublish date:2017-08-07Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674971042ISBN-10:674971043UPC:9780674971042Book Category:Art, Business & Economics, ScienceBook Subcategory:Museum Studies, Museum Administration and Museology, HistorySize:9.40 x 6.40 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SC6NRX4M80

Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our senses and orchestrate our impressions, balancing presentation and preservation, information and emotion. Curators consider visitors' interactions with objects and with one another, how our bodies move through displays, how our eyes grasp objects, how we learn and how we feel. Inside the Lost Museum documents the work museums do and suggests ways these institutions can enrich the educational and aesthetic experience of their visitors.

Woven throughout Inside the Lost Museum is the story of the Jenks Museum at Brown University, a nineteenth-century display of natural history, anthropology, and curiosities that disappeared a century ago. The Jenks Museum's past, and a recent effort by artist Mark Dion, Steven Lubar, and their students to reimagine it as art and history, serve as a framework for exploring the long record of museums' usefulness and service.

Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every collection and exhibition. Lubar explains work behind the scenes--collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building--through historical and contemporary examples. Inside the Lost Museum speaks to the hunt, the find, and the reveal that make curating and visiting exhibitions and using collections such a rewarding and vital pursuit.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674971042ISBN-10:674971043UPC:9780674971042Book Category:Art, Business & Economics, ScienceBook Subcategory:Museum Studies, Museum Administration and Museology, HistorySize:9.40 x 6.40 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SC6NRX4M80
Lubar, Steven: - Steven Lubar, a former museum curator and director, is Professor of American Studies at Brown University.
Publisher: Harvard University Press

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