From sausage rolls to sushi and back again: Lessons for successful travelling block-buster loans

Cross, Maureen; Flynn, Kathleen

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“…Moreover, since an exhibition is a significant mode of representation, most discussions on controversial museum exhibitions focus much more on those exhibitions provoking disagreements about representation (Zolberg, 1996; Gieryn, 1998; Wallace, 1998; Lash, 2000; Luke, 1992, 2002) than those that stir up controversy over the risk of movement. Though the risk of travelling museum exhibitions has become an issue in the areas of conservation and museum ethics, legitimate discourses in the disguise of professional and scientific flavour overruled the more complicated academic analyses on wider social responses required in this topic (See ICOM's code of ethics, Thomson, 1986; Ashley‐Smith, 1999; Cross and Flynn, 2003). Nevertheless, within the travelling exhibition, which is composed of exhibits moved from abroad, controversy over the risk and the response towards it, such as “taking the risk” to travel or not (Lupton, 1999: 149–172), is closely intertwined with consideration of the exhibition's representation.…”

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The Risk of Historical Artefacts in Travel: The Construction of Risk in the International Travelling Exhibition

Lai¹

2006

J Historical Sociology

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This article interrogates the risk of historical artefacts in travel, emphasising especially on the construction of the risk of boundary-crossing when museum exhibits travel abroad through "outbound" international travelling exhibitions. This follows the history of a controversial exhibition, the "Splendour of Imperial China" -held in 1996 that travelled from the National Palace Museum in Taipei which is renowned for its abundant and unique Chinese art collection to one of the most prominent museums on the global stage -the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Drawing upon Mary Douglas's analysis of danger/risk and classification, this paper argues that the risk within the "outbound" international travelling exhibition is less ontological than constructed. Often the controversy over the risk re-delineates the boundary between "us" and "them". This article, first of all, examines the power-laden relationship, regulated by the struggle of the global museum field, when museum experts at home and abroad co-write the risk of an exhibition's travel in the language of insurance calculation. Second, it analyses the laymen's protesting discourses against the historical artefacts' overseas travel through outbound international travelling exhibition. The protest which appropriated the "keeping-whilegiving" logic of exchange, and backed up with both national sentiments and international symbolic sources, rendered the exhibition a hot potato. Finally, it interrogates how the settled outbound travelling exhibition actually renders the museum collection reclassified and revalorized according to their suitability for overseas travel.

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The Risk of Historical Artefacts in Travel: The Construction of Risk in the International Travelling Exhibition

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2006

J Historical Sociology

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From sausage rolls to sushi and back again: Lessons for successful travelling block-buster loans

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