The "New Museology" and Classical Art

Elsner, Jaś; MacGregor, Arthur; Bann, Stephen; Pearce, Susan; Bennett, Tony; Pointon, Marcia; duncan, carol; Stone, Peter; Molyneaux, Brian Leigh; Messenger, Phyllis Mauch

doi:10.2307/506677

“…The early history of large, national Western museums of this type is thus inevitably bound up with the cultural preoccupations of what such societies consider to be important in relation to their own history. In many of the major museums of Northern and Western Europe for example, this preoccupation manifests itself with a great emphasis (in national-level collections) on the history and archaeology of Greece and Rome (Elsner et al, 1996). Historically, the stories of such museums are closely bound up with colonial and postcolonial narratives, and the commodification of "otherness" for domestic consumption (Coombes, 1986).…”

Section: Museums and Physical (Spatial) Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

Museums and Digital Culture

2019

Springer Series on Cultural Computing

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Museums represent complex layers of place. From carefully managed curatorial spaces, to exhibition environments, to the layout of display cases, to the representation of distant parts embodied in the collections of the great encyclopedic collections, the negotiation, representation and presentation of place has always been central to the mission of any museum. This chapter will examine the history of how museums (especially museum catalogues) present place, from early origins to the Internet. A set of case studies will be examined as a means of exploring how, where and in what form art objects and artefacts first began to be transported from non-Western to Western nations for display in the museums of Western capitals, thus representing the origins of what Cuno has called our "basic and inevitable cultural interrelatedness"; and what others have called "object itineraries" or "object biographies". A comparison will be made of the same museums' online representation of the same places today. It will thus be possible to present a framework for considering object itineraries -historic and modern -as a subject of both history and historiography.

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“…The early history of large, national Western museums of this type is thus inevitably bound up with the cultural preoccupations of what such societies consider to be important in relation to their own history. In many of the major museums of Northern and Western Europe for example, this preoccupation manifests itself with a great emphasis (in national-level collections) on the history and archaeology of Greece and Rome (Elsner et al, 1996). Historically, the stories of such museums are closely bound up with colonial and postcolonial narratives, and the commodification of "otherness" for domestic consumption (Coombes, 1986).…”

Section: Museums and Physical (Spatial) Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial Narratives in Museums and Online: The Birth of the Digital Object Itinerary

Dunn

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Museums represent complex layers of place. From carefully managed curatorial spaces, to exhibition environments, to the layout of display cases, to the representation of distant parts embodied in the collections of the great encyclopedic collections, the negotiation, representation and presentation of place has always been central to the mission of any museum. This chapter will examine the history of how museums (especially museum catalogues) present place, from early origins to the Internet. A set of case studies will be examined as a means of exploring how, where and in what form art objects and artefacts first began to be transported from non-Western to Western nations for display in the museums of Western capitals, thus representing the origins of what Cuno has called our "basic and inevitable cultural interrelatedness"; and what others have called "object itineraries" or "object biographies". A comparison will be made of the same museums' online representation of the same places today. It will thus be possible to present a framework for considering object itineraries -historic and modern -as a subject of both history and historiography.

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“…Long conversations with Susan Pollock were essential in the initial formulation of ideas and their elaboration. For the case of the British use of museums in support of their dominance over India, see the excellent chapters in Cohn (1996: 76-105) and Prakash (1999: 17-52 Sherman (1990), Eisner (1996) and Gordon (1996) treat a total of 16 books on the subject. Lubar's remark (1997, 24) (Blattberg and Broderick 1991,333-334).…”

Section: Epiloguementioning

confidence: 99%

The Construction of Meanings in Museums

Crooke¹

2000

Arch. Dial.

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BembeckThe e x h i b i t i o n of a r c h i t e c t u r e and t h e a r c h i t e c t u r e of an e x h i b i t i o nThe changing face of the Pergamon Museum AbstractOne of the major archaeological museums, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, serves as an example to discuss j? present problems of museology. I argue that the development of museums has to be analysed from a combina-° tion of perspectives, including an historical one, that of visitors and of museum staff. In a first section, the paper 8 J3 1 outlines the history of the Pergamon Museum, including an institutional history and the larger socio-political o 2 framework. To highlight the range of possibilities of understanding, I give two readings of the museum from the viewpoints of differently oriented visitors, one colonialist, the other postmodern. I then consider current debates among curators and distinguish between two main exhibition strategies, one pragmatist, the other purist. Finally, I discuss the larger framework in which museums exist, which shows their problematic status. Using critical theory's distinction between culture industry and affirmative (elite) culture, I show that the Pergamon and other museums survive today only through an uneasy compromise between these two extreme poles of culture.

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The "New Museology" and Classical Art

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