Understanding Historic Buildings
... Creating a record of an historic building involves a range of activities. These are often overlapping and mutually informing. Some practitioners will aim to be proficient in all of these activities, but often collaboration will be required and it is important that the insights generated by different ...
... Creating a record of an historic building involves a range of activities. These are often overlapping and mutually informing. Some practitioners will aim to be proficient in all of these activities, but often collaboration will be required and it is important that the insights generated by different ...
The life of an artifact in an interpretive archaeology
... It is in this context that I take up the proposition that a radical opposition of people and things should be rethought. This has various dimensions. The issue of alienation and the commodity form finds clear definition in the work of Hegel and Marx, with a dialectic of production and the relationsh ...
... It is in this context that I take up the proposition that a radical opposition of people and things should be rethought. This has various dimensions. The issue of alienation and the commodity form finds clear definition in the work of Hegel and Marx, with a dialectic of production and the relationsh ...
Museum Collection Development Policy 2014-2017
... collections. These allocations tended to follow the available curatorial expertise within each service at the time. • Existing displays were not dismantled and in most cases objects on display in one location but allocated to a different service were made loans. In practice, the County transferred i ...
... collections. These allocations tended to follow the available curatorial expertise within each service at the time. • Existing displays were not dismantled and in most cases objects on display in one location but allocated to a different service were made loans. In practice, the County transferred i ...
The Hall of Mexico and Central America
... 3. Look at the photo-cards of objects from the exhibition. Have each student select one object for careful examination. Discuss why they selected their photo-card. Before reading the description on the back of each photo-card, have students describe the object in detail. Ask them to focus on the ...
... 3. Look at the photo-cards of objects from the exhibition. Have each student select one object for careful examination. Discuss why they selected their photo-card. Before reading the description on the back of each photo-card, have students describe the object in detail. Ask them to focus on the ...
Out of Heaviness, Enlightenment
... these changes mean that traditional connections are sometimes NAGPRA poses a number of difficult challenges for museums tenuous or difficult to establish. This is a particular problem and tribes alike. The most obvious of these is funding. NAGPRA has often been characterized as an unfunded mandate, ...
... these changes mean that traditional connections are sometimes NAGPRA poses a number of difficult challenges for museums tenuous or difficult to establish. This is a particular problem and tribes alike. The most obvious of these is funding. NAGPRA has often been characterized as an unfunded mandate, ...
FROM NATURAL WHOLES TO PARTICULAR UNIVERSALITY
... only scarcely documented through archaeological objects. We may argue that this approach was holistic, in the sense that it included our own past with the history of the Other – in other words, it dealt with mankind. Photos from the joint ethnographic and archaeological exhibits Hunting People (196 ...
... only scarcely documented through archaeological objects. We may argue that this approach was holistic, in the sense that it included our own past with the history of the Other – in other words, it dealt with mankind. Photos from the joint ethnographic and archaeological exhibits Hunting People (196 ...
129 Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania
... ethnographic fieldwork, and museum purchases. In choosing to speak to the history of the collection rather than the cultures represented in it, Olszewski skillfully imbues the objects with more than just a strict cultural meaning. These objects, for a variety of reasons, speak to museum curators, an ...
... ethnographic fieldwork, and museum purchases. In choosing to speak to the history of the collection rather than the cultures represented in it, Olszewski skillfully imbues the objects with more than just a strict cultural meaning. These objects, for a variety of reasons, speak to museum curators, an ...
Anthropology 6201.10 Museums and Anthropology
... • Collections as knowledge (how collections take shape)--includes the how and why of collecting, the use of accession records to understand the history of a collection, building information around a specific artifact or collection when the records are minimal, and the critical examination of existin ...
... • Collections as knowledge (how collections take shape)--includes the how and why of collecting, the use of accession records to understand the history of a collection, building information around a specific artifact or collection when the records are minimal, and the critical examination of existin ...
Documentation of cultural property
The documentation of cultural property is a critical aspect of collections care. As stewards of cultural property, museums collect and preserve not only objects but the research and documentation connected to those objects, in order to more effectively care for them. Documenting cultural heritage is a collaborative effort. Essentially, registrars, collection managers, conservators, and curators all contribute to the task of recording and preserving information regarding collections. There are two main types of documentation museums are responsible for: records generated in the registration process—accessions, loans, inventories, etc. and information regarding research on objects and their historical significance. Properly maintaining both types of documentation is vital to preserving cultural heritage.