Museums Objects and Collections (Leicester Museum Studies) - Softcover

Susan M. Pearce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0718514424 ISBN 13: 9780718514426

Publisher: Leicester University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Explores the nature of museums, of their collections and of the objects which form these collections; and also the psychological and social reasons why objects are collected at all. An intellectual study of the museum, it concludes with an attempt to define the curatorial function.

About this title

About the Author

Susan M. Pearce is professor of museum studies and director of the department of museum studies at the University of Leicester. She is the editor of Museum Studies in Material Culture (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), and the author of Archaeological Curatorship (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990) and On Collecting (1995).

Review

“Dense and rewarding. Through this study the author intends to explore the philosophies and cultural traditions which underlie museums, their collections, and the objects which make them up, and to see how meaning is created amongst them.”—Arlis-Newssheet

“Profoundly rewarding . . . [Museums, Objects, and Collections] offers one of the most extensive and penetrating analyses of museums you are likely to find anywhere.”—Curator

Edition details

• Publisher: Leicester University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718514424
• ISBN 13: 9780718514426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256