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1st Edition

Active Collections

Edited By Elizabeth Wood, Rainey Tisdale, Trevor Jones Copyright 2018
186 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In recent years, many museums have implemented sweeping changes in how they engage audiences. However, changes to the field’s approaches to collections stewardship have come much more slowly. Active Collections critically examines existing approaches to museum collections and explores practical, yet radical, ways that museums can better manage their collections to actively advance their... Read more

Foreword Jim Vaughn

Introduction Trevor Jones, Rainey Tisdale, Elizabeth Wood

Active Collections Manifesto Trevor Jones & Rainey Tisdale

Section 1: Conceptual Frameworks

1.Ten Principles for an Anti-Racist, Anti-Orientalist, Activist Approach to Collections Masum Momaya

2. Objects or People? Rainey Tisdale

Interlude 1: Sensory Deprivation: A short play based on a real-life scenario Elizabeth Wood

3. Museum Collections and Public Feelings Modupe Labode

Interlude 2:  What Happens When Audiences “Talk” To Objects? Gabriel Taylor

4. Hoarding and Museum Collections: Conceptual Similarities and Differences Gail Steketee

5. The Vital Museum Collection Elizabeth Wood

6. Four Forceful Phrases: An Archival Change Agent Muses on Museology Mark Greene

Interlude 3: We are Collecting Empty Boxes? Elizabeth Wood, with Kayla Al Ameri

7. Rethinking Museum Collections in a Troubled World Robert R. Janes

Interlude 4: Activate Your Object: 51 Questions to Reveal Inactivity Katherine Rieck

Section II: New Ideas and Tools for Change

8. Tier your Collections! A Practical Tool for Making Clear Decisions in Collections Management Trevor Jones

9.  #Meaning: Cataloging Active Collections Paul Bourcier

Interlude 5: Question the Database! Vickie Stone

10.  Practical Strategies for Addressing Hoarding in Collections Gail Steketee

Interlude 6: Tidying Up Museum Collections Anne Jordan

11.  Things in Flux: Collecting in the Constructivist Museum Benjamin Filene

Interlude 7: A (Practical) Inspiration: Do You Know What It Costs You to Collect? Trevor Jones

12. Reworking Collections Management Practices for How We Must Live Now: An Archival Case Study Susan M. Irwin and Linda A. Whitaker

13. Object Reincarnation: Imagining a Future Outside the Permanent Collection Kate Bowell

Interlude 8: Imagine with Us Rainey Tisdale

Biography

Elizabeth Wood is Professor of museum studies, and public scholar of museums, families, and learning at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA.

Rainey Tisdale is an independent curator who leads for change on field-wide issues including place-based interpretation, collections stewardship, creative practice, and museums and well-being.

Trevor Jones is Director and CEO of the Nebraska State Historical Society, USA.

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