- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Manchester University Press (1 Oct 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719081149
- ISBN-13: 978-0719081149
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,292,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Museums are engines of difference. This book analyses how nature and culture are constructed within them and how museum objects and practices shaped twentieth-century disciplines. It is a vital new work; the first to take the University of Manchester's Museum as its subject. By setting the museum in its cultural and intellectual contexts, 'Nature and Culture' explores twentieth-century collecting and display, and the status of the object in the modern world. Beginning with the origins of the Manchester Museum in Victorian civic culture, accounting for its development as an internationally renowned university museum, and concluding at its major expansion at the turn of the millennium, this book casts new light on the history of museums. Each chapter looks at the collection from a different perspective. What was the status of material culture in natural history, archaeology and anthropology over the course of the twentieth century - how did objects become knowledge? Who encountered museum objects on their way to museums? What happened to collections within the museum - how were they preserved, catalogued and displayed? How did visitors use and respond to objects? In answering these questions, 'Nature and Culture' illuminates not only the history of one institution, but also contributes to wider discussions in history of science, cultural history and museology. It will become essential reading for academics, post-graduates and museum professionals.
About the Author
Sam Alberti is Lecturer in Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the Centre for Museology and Research Fellow at the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
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