Museums and biographies : stories, objects, identities

The Resource Museums and biographies : stories, objects, identities

Label

Museums and biographies : stories, objects, identities

Title remainder

stories, objects, identities

Statement of responsibility

edited by Kate Hill

Language

eng

Summary

"Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives. This innovative collection examines for the first time biography -- of individuals, objects and institutions -- in relationship to the museum, casting new light on the many facets of museum history and theory, from the lives of prominent curators, to the context of museums of biography and autobiography. Separate sections cover individual biography and museum history, problematising individual biographies, institutional biographies, object biographies, and museums as biographies/autobiographies. These articles offer new ways of thinking about museums and museum history, exploring how biography in and of the museum enriches museum stories by stressing the inter-related nature of lives of people, objects and institutions as part of a dense web of relationships. Through their widely ranging research, the contributors demonstrate the value of thinking about the stories told in and by museums, and the relationships which make up museums; and suggest new ways of undertaking and understanding museum biographies"--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

CDX

Illustrations

illustrations
portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Series statement

Heritage matters

Series volume

v. 9

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