Unpacking the Collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum

by Sarah Byrne

Book Overview

Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behind glass cases. By focusing on the dynamic histories of museum collections, new research reveals their pivotal role in shaping a wide range of social relations. Over time and across space the interactions between these artefacts and the people and institutions who made, traded, collected, researched and exhibited them have generated complex networks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146142917X
• ISBN13: 9781461429173
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"