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{"title":"COVID-19 and the museum environment","authors":"P. Cannon-Brookes","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2023.2196193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2023.2196193","url":null,"abstract":"In mid-February 2020, as Consultant Curator of The Tabley House Collection for the University of Manchester, I was in Forlí overseeing the loan of a painting to the ‘Ulysses’ exhibition mounted in the Museii San Domenico. The Private View, held during the evening of 14 February, was uncharacteristically subdued and gloomy, and I subsequently reported to the Trustees of The Tabley House Collection that it may have been influenced by the gathering storm in Northern Italy of which I was then not fully aware. I returned to the United Kingdom 15 February and the first cases of the novel Coronavirus in EmiliaRomagna were identified 22 February 2020, with 2644 cases by 14 March. Lock-down imposed by the Italian central government had been extended to the whole of Italy from 9 March 2020, resulting in closure of inter alia all museums and art galleries, and by 16 March 24,747 cases had been notified in Italy. COVID-19 is not the only public health issue which has to be addressed in the museum environment and too little attention has been directed towards combatting respiratory diseases in general when formulating institutional policy. Past experience provides warning signs which can be heeded or ignored, but what practical measures can be derived from it? Long before viruses were recognised as the pathogens transmitting influenza and a range of other respiratory infectious diseases, the principal means of spreading infection had been recognised empirically as respiratory droplets in the air. Infection from surfaces contaminated thereby was the obvious corollary. However, the mechanisms involved in the transfer of pathogens have attracted only limited attention. ‘Respiratory droplets in the air’ is a description which misleads as much as it informs, and questions have to be asked about how droplets of water of different sizes behave in different environmental conditions after exhalation. At the Copenhagen meeting of the International Committee for Museum Security (ICMS) in 2014 I presented a paper, ‘Water Mist Fire Suppression in the Cultural Property Environment: an Update’, which built on the article ‘Water Mist’ for Fire Protection of Historic Buildings and Museums’ which Professor Torgrim Log and I published in Museum Management and Curatorship, vol. 14, 1995, pp. 283–298. In these we drew attention to the characteristics of fine water sprays as fire suppressants and the rate of evaporation of fine water droplets. These findings are also of direct relevance in coming to an understanding of the behaviour of water droplets when expelled from human lungs. As a contaminated droplet evaporates it becomes smaller and under conditions favourable to itself it joins the general melée of dust particles benefitting from Brownian Motion. Recently I had a meeting","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"114 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48876694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The museums and collections of higher education","authors":"G. Chavarria","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2023.2186080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2023.2186080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"228 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46867645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Co-curating with trans people: the challenges of collaborating with heterogenous minoritised communities","authors":"S. Iervolino","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2023.2188481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2023.2188481","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What are the challenges entangled with co-curatorial processes developed with highly heterogeneous, minoritised communities? Why do these exhibitions, even when co-created with community members, often emphasize community homogeneity over diversity? I address these questions by focusing on the Science Museum, London. I look back at a past project, What Makes Your Gender? (2014): a pivotal step in the Museum's treatment of gender diversity co-curated with trans young people and activists associated with Gendered Intelligence, a trans-led charity aiming to improve trans people's lives. Drawing on my exhibition analysis and ethnographic research of this co-creation project, I discuss why the heterogeneity and divisions within the curatorial team were overlooked in the co-curatorial process and final display. The discussion then shifts towards more recent debate surrounding the Museum's treatment of trans/gender people in the Who Am I? permanent gallery (2000 to present). The paper shows how inclusive curatorial projects attempting to validate minoritised communities, which are subject to discriminatory discourse in the media and wider public realm, can privilege homogenizing and easily 'consumable' representations of trans people at the expense of more accurate portrayals. It argues for greater attention to intersectionality and community diversity in curatorial projects co-created with heterogenous minoritised groups.","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"117 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49009624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"James M. Bradburne","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2023.2196192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2023.2196192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"113 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44927441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The garden visitor experience","authors":"Sibylle Moser","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2158914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2158914","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Based on a systematic data base search this paper provides a comprehensive survey of empirical research on garden visitor experiences, arguing that prevalent studies in garden tourism, psychology and education shed little light on the esthetic experience of gardens as cultural artifacts. Gibson’s transdisciplinary concept of ‘affordance’ is therefore used to reinterpret findings from the social sciences in light of landscape design and cultural analysis. The paper addresses how horticultural designs afford visitors to move through landscapes, to perceive and sense plant displays and to create meaning through bodily engagement. It furthermore shows, how media technologies such as mobile guides afford visitors to engage the garden through their specific material and operational design. As a result, the paper introduces a transdisciplinary model of the garden visitor experience that integrates bodily perception and conceptual understanding. Accordingly, the deliberate design of interpretative media is identified as a key agenda for visitor engagement.","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48787564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why the museum matters","authors":"M. Schwarzer","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2023.2162269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2023.2162269","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"110 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41849107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What is the gap between curator’s plan and visitors’ perception of the palace museum?","authors":"Hongxing Cao, Huadan Zhang, Xuechun Wang","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2158913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2158913","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41606836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Industrial museums with Chinese characteristics: theories and practices","authors":"Lan Long, J. M. Cano Sanchiz","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2158912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2158912","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46408215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Encoding object-oriented democracy in Swedish museums: implementing method of the thing in exhibition-making","authors":"Giuseppina Addo, P. Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2158908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2158908","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As museums face conflicting demands on maintaining and caring for their collections, opening for visitor engagement, and being more inclusive in their practice, new approaches are needed to museum work. This article introduces a democratic and inclusive approach focusing on the relational properties of the artefact – the Method of the Thing (Tigenes Metode). We use interviews with different museum professionals in Sweden. The method allows knowledge to emerge from the convergence of different actors within and outside the museum who negotiate their expertise, (professional) roles and technical infrastructure of the museum by foregrounding the object rather than the curators’ story. We use the encoding/decoding model to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the method where centring the object allows for a process of democratisation and polyvocality to take shape, thus allowing divergent narratives to emerge.","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"76 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48910969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revolutionary exhibition and youth identity: a visitor study of the Shanghai Sihang warehouse battle memorial","authors":"Siyi Wang, Xinyi Wu","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2158909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2158909","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Revolutionary exhibitions are unique cultural resources in China, part of a ‘red’ narrative that centers the Communist Party in the country’s liberation and development. They contribute substantially to the creation of a shared national identity, yet current revolutionary exhibitions in China show too much homogenization and too little narrative innovation. Organized and curated primarily on a mechanical manner, they often lack the persuasive force needed to promote a red narrative in the twenty-first century. Through in-depth interviews with visitors at the Shanghai Sihang Warehouse Battle Memorial, this article explores how revolutionary exhibitions can tell red stories in a way that engages the public, especially younger generations. This study addresses a critical question: How can exhibitions establish and maintain connections between a country’s revolutionary history, which is based on self-sacrifice, and a globalized market economy, which is driven by self-interest?","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"293 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49240584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}