University museums and collections

Abstract

Peter Stanbury has worked with university museums and historic houses for most of his career. In 1992 he was one of the co‐founders of the Australia‐wide association of university museums, CAUMAC – the Council of Australian University Museums and Collections. In 1998 he proposed the formation of an international university museums group at ICOM in Melbourne. He currently advises the vice‐chancellor of Macquarie University, Sydney, on museums, collections and heritage, and is executive officer of the Museums and Collections Standing Committee of the New South Wales Vice‐Chancellors’ Committee.

The Routledge Handbook of cultural tourism

“…The need to accommodate both 'regular' tourists, teaching programmes and academic researchers can place pressures on curators because of the need to satisfy the primary audience whose study and teaching needs may be very different from those of visiting cultural tourists, not all of whom will be seeking the same level of engagement with the collection. Such issues can be exacerbated when the resources available to university museums are limited (Stanbury 2000). Yet at the same time, there is an opportunity for university museums to use their collections both to celebrate their institutional heritage and at the same time develop a particular institutional identity that appeals to a wide range of audiences (Kozak 2007).…”

Adopting Augmented Reality to Engage Higher Education Students in a Museum University Collection: the Experience at Roma Tre University

“…University museums are powerful resource centres in higher education to enhance the impact of their teaching and research [1]. Today, university museums and collections are an essential part of a country's heritage and are becoming more accessible to a wider public [2]. They provide unique opportunities to actively fulfil critical mission statements of university, by inspiring innovative research projects and providing students with real life objects [3] to explore and manipulate.…”