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  • THE MUSEUM’S BORDERS
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    THE MUSEUM’S BORDERS
    SIMON KNELL
    The Museum’s Borders demonstrates that museum practices are deeply entangled in border making, patrol, mitigation and erasure, and that the border lens offers a new tool for deconstructing and reconfiguring such practices. Arguing that the museum is a critical institution for the operation of knowledge-based democracies, Knell investigates how they have been used by scientists,...

    $1,120.00

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  • MUSEUMS AND THE FUTURE OF COLLECTING
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    MUSEUMS AND THE FUTURE OF COLLECTING
    SIMON J. KNELL
    Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. This book exposes the many meanings of collections, the different perspectives taken by different cultures, and the institutional response to the collecting problem. One major concern is omission, whether this be ...

    $980.00

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  • A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MUSEUM STUDIES
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    A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MUSEUM STUDIES
    SIMON J. KNELL
    A comprehensive bibliographic reference for students and others wishing to investigate the contemporary literature on museums and collections. The references are systematically arranged into sections including collections management, communication and exhibitions, museum education, material culture, the museums profession and museum management. Compiled from the research and ...

    $1,240.00

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  • NATIONAL GALLERIES
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    NATIONAL GALLERIES
    SIMON KNELL
    Are national galleries different from other kinds of art gallery or museum? What value is there for the nation in a collection of international masterpieces? How are national galleries involved in the construction national art? National Galleries is the first book to undertake a panoramic view of a type of national institution – which are sometimes called national museums of fi...

    $1,160.00

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  • MUSEUM REVOLUTIONS
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    MUSEUM REVOLUTIONS
    SIMON KNELL
    This single-volume museum studies reference title explores the ways in which museums are shaped and configured and how they themselves attempt to shape and change the world around them. Written by a leading group of museum professionals and academics from around the world and including new research, the chapters reveal the diverse and subtle means by which museums engage and in...

    $1,480.00

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  • CARE OF COLLECTIONS
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    CARE OF COLLECTIONS
    SIMON KNELL
    Confronting contemporary issues in museum practice, this collection provides a practical guide to all aspects of collections care. Contributors cover a wide range of issues including: conservation practice the monitoring and control of light relative humidity and atmospheric pollution packing, handling and transportation of collections storage and access to collections biologic...

    $1,380.00

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  • THE GREAT FOSSIL ENIGMA
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    THE GREAT FOSSIL ENIGMA
    SIMON J. KNELL
    A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology's greatest mysteries: "Deserves to be widely read and enjoyed" ( Priscum).   Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the eel-like conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The search for its identity confounded scientists for more than a ...

    $251.00

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