Overview

This book encourages museums to move away from the collecting of isolated tokens; to move beyond the collecting policy and to understand more clearly the intellectual function of what they do. Examples are given from Australia, Sweden, Canada, Spain, Britain and Croatia which provide this intellectual understanding and many practical tools for evaluating a future collecting strategy.

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'...there is much that can be taken from this book and applied to the daily practice and philosophy of the whole range of museums...' Museum National '... the second edition of this book [...] is welcome and timely... this book should help bring collecting activity back up the museum agenda.' Museums Journal 'Museums and the Future of Collecting is produced in paperback at an affordable price; this should enable this volume of essays to feature on every curator's bookshelf, where it deserves to be.' Journal of the Society of Archivists

’...there is much that can be taken from this book and applied to the daily practice and philosophy of the whole range of museums...' Museum National '... the second edition of this book [...] is welcome and timely... this book should help bring collecting activity back up the museum agenda.' Museums Journal 'Museums and the Future of Collecting is produced in paperback at an affordable price; this should enable this volume of essays to feature on every curator's bookshelf, where it deserves to be.' Journal of the Society of Archivists

Author Information

Simon J. Knell, University of Leicester, UK Simon Knell, Malcolm McLeod, Richard Dunn, Patricia Kell, Rebecca Duclos, Paul Martin, Gaynor Kavanagh, Zarka Vujic, Graham Dominy, Nicola Clayton, John Martin, Michael Taylor, Janet Owen, Linda Young, Anna Steen, Barbro Bursell, Maria Garcia, Carmen Chinea, Jose Farina, Jean-Marc Gagnon, Gerald Fitzgerald, Martin Wickham, Patricia Ainslie, James Fowler, Tomislav Sola.

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