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1st Edition

The Curation and Care of Museum Collections

Edited By Bruce Campbell, Christian Baars Copyright 2019

226 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

226 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

226 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Description

Museum curators enter the profession with a specialist subject qualification and yet at some point in their career, many curators find themselves in charge of a range of collections outside of their expert knowledge. Interpreting, curating and caring for mixed collections demands of curators a wide range of knowledge and understanding. The Curation and Care of Museum Collections is designed... Read more

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

　

PART I: Museum collections

1 Archaeology collections - Sara L. Wear

2 Art collections - Alison Bevan and Gemma Brace

3 Heritage properties - Emily Price

4 History collections - Alexia M. Clark

5 Military collections - Rachel Adams

6 Natural science collections - Bruce A. Campbell

　

PART II: Collection development and care

7 Collection development strategy: Potentially everything is useful and interesting - Elizabeth A. Walker and Diane Gwilt

8 Collection care and conservation - Christian Baars

　

Index

Editor(s)

Biography

Bruce A. Campbell is an Associate Tutor at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.

Christian Baars is Senior Preventive Conservator at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales in the UK.

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