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{"title":"Capturing nature: early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893","authors":"A. McCredie","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2020.1727100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2020.1727100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2020.1727100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43680718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collecting, colonisation and civic culture in southern New Zealand","authors":"T. Ballantyne","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2020.1760050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2020.1760050","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Colonial collections played an important dual role: they were key sites from which ideas about cultural difference were theorised and they were also the foundations of public institutions that were central in shaping civic culture. This article explores these dynamics through the history of the Otago Museum and, in particular, the very different types of collecting engaged in by the colonial bookman T. M. Hocken, the anthropologist H. D. Skinner, and the historian J. H. Beattie.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2020.1760050","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42583245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘My dear Hooker’: the botanical landscape in colonial New Zealand","authors":"R. Rice","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2020.1766296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2020.1766296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT From the 1860s, there was a flurry of activity around the natural sciences in colonial New Zealand, as the native flora of this place was collected, analysed, identified and classified. While males dominated the professional world of knowledge production in the recently established field of ‘serious’ scientific botany, the amateur field was populated by highly talented females, including Georgina Hetley and Sarah Featon. James Hector, first Director of Wellington's Colonial Museum, was a keen botanist, and regularly communicated with 'My dear Hooker', Joseph Dalton Hooker of Kew Gardens. Hector supported several scientific publications by males in the 1870s and 80s, yet his lack of support for locally produced works by females is notable. This paper investigates the networks that both supported and restricted female activity in this field. It will consider the contributions of female practitioners, highlighting that the life of a ‘flower painter' occupied a liminal realm – never fully at home either in the world of science, or of art. It will imagine how different these women’s lives and careers may have been if they had been privileged to communicate with 'My dear Hooker' and to receive letters addressed in turn to, for example, 'My dear Hetley'.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2020.1766296","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43638237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What were they thinking? Tracing evolution in the Otago Museum, 1868–1936","authors":"R. Crane","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2020.1759005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2020.1759005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The first three curators at the Otago University Museum, Dunedin, NZ had much in common. They were zoologists, all evolutionists, all part-time curators (they held professorial posts in the University), all Englishmen, and all professed an Anglican faith, qualities that brought them unexpected conflict in the largely Presbyterian Scottish settler town. The men struggled to complete their time-constrained research in more-or-less isolation amongst unfamiliar and peculiar New Zealand fauna. Spanning the years 1873 when the first curator was appointed, to 1936 when the third retired, this paper sets their achievements against their individual evolutionary stances that subtly guided the layout in the museum.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2020.1759005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46652542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Museum histories in Aotearoa New Zealand: intersections of the local and the global","authors":"R. Crane, Bronwyn Labrum, Angela Wanhalla","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2020.1759004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2020.1759004","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue is the result of a two-day conference, ‘Held in Trust: Curiosity in Things’, sponsored by the University of Otago’s Centre for Research on Colonial Culture (CRoCC), and held at the Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, in January 2019. The gathering, which was prompted by the 150th year of the Otago Museum, focused on histories of institutional collections and collectors in Aotearoa New Zealand set within a global intellectual and commercial context. We would like to thank all the speakers and delegates for their individual and collective contribution to the success and stimulation of the outstanding event. The conference deliberately set out to enlarge museum history, which has largely been framed under the rubric of colonial domination or building cathedrals of science. Both notions are somewhat superficial and do not tell us much about the bigger stories that motivated the creation of the collections, particularly in the British colonial context of the colony that became New Zealand. While objects have the capacity to tell stories of lives and communities that are interconnected over space and time, this aspect is largely lost in the tendency to research specific object biographies and recount tales of eccentric collectors. In such approaches, the global context is often missing, especially the critical dimension of commercial trade and how exchange networks contributed to the patterns of knowledge discovery and creation. Objects are the tangible material world of scientific endeavour and during the nineteenth century trade in them boomed. Also overlooked are tales of the political context surrounding the discovery and translocation of objects. Acquisition histories dominate the field of the history of collecting and institutional histories run the risk of becoming bogged down in these empirical, albeit fascinating, approaches. The contributors to this special issue show how museums and collections are the result of a complex interrelationship between people, places and things and how these inform practices surrounding acquisition and knowledge generation. Through an interrogation of the formation of these social, economic and cultural assemblages, we can begin to understand how colonial museums were an integral part of these social and material connections. We also think that these articles about the history and development of museums in one colonial site have an application to colonial museums more broadly.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2020.1759004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48757818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fitting the colonial museum dashboard? Civic action, curatorial agency and identity building at the Auckland Museum (1852–1929)","authors":"D. Gaimster","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2020.1760056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2020.1760056","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT John MacKenzie in his Museums and Empire (2010) sets out an evolutionary framework of museum development in the British settler colonies. The formation years of the Auckland Museum in New Zealand both align and misalign with this progressive imperial model. In contrast to the establishment of the first Australian museums, which were essentially state sponsored enterprises, the Auckland Museum experience of the second half of the nineteenth century is one of curatorial agency, civic action and identity building in New Zealand's second capital city. In addition, the tentative reciprocal relationships with Māori in the rapid growth of the indigenous cultural collections are a defining feature of this phase of intensive acquisition and expansion. Imperial aspirations only came with WW1 when the future Auckland Museum was re-imagined as being ‘essential to complete the equipment of men and women who are to lead the work of progressive civilisation' and a new museum architecture of Empire was conceived. Whilst referencing the prevailing museological framework for the study of early museums in British settler colonies, this article concentrates less on the theory of Empire and more on local biography, collecting impulses and archival histories of the Auckland Museum during its formative years, now one of New Zealand’s most extensive cultural assets.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2020.1760056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45712087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Researching the natural history trade of the nineteenth century","authors":"S. Ville","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2020.1760047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2020.1760047","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The archives of the Australian Museum and the Macleay Museum are deployed to analyse the global trading networks of two important Australian natural history collectors in the mid-nineteenth century. The evidence reveals much about the challenges they faced transacting in heterogeneous specimens over long distances. It also uncovers some of the solutions they pursued, particularly in choosing the appropriate type of transaction, forging trust-based trading networks, obtaining up-to-date scientific information, and drawing on the infrastructure of existing, regular commodity trades.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2020.1760047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44717048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From histories of museums to museum history: approaches to historicising colonial museums in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Conal McCarthy","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2020.1759008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2020.1759008","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite their reputation for stasis and fixity, museums are about change and transformation. What can we learn from the history of New Zealand museums about the study of museum history? This article considers the lessons we can glean from New Zealand museums in the colonial period. It surveys recent theories about history, social change and museums, including historical sociology, which throw much light on this topic and open up new future paths to explore. The aim is not the compiling of an institutional history but to propose a refined analytical framework for museum history which can deal with the constant change which characterises the history of museums. It argues that we need to move beyond both the conventional idea of a linear history, and also the reliance on commemoration, in order to do ‘museum history', rather than just ‘histories of museums’. This approach is explicitly interdisciplinary, explores historical and theoretical perspectives on museums, and considers their implications for current museum practice. By historicising museums, both their internal practices and their external social relations, we may move beyond the commemorative histories of museums to develop a critical museum history. This new museum history needs to interrogate the past, not describe, commemorate and celebrate it.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2020.1759008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47568385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Projecting the Museum: Moving images in, and of, Scotland’s national museum","authors":"G. Swinney","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2019.1703154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2019.1703154","url":null,"abstract":"The century-long engagement of museums with the moving image is examined through a case study of its deployment by National Museums Scotland (inclusive of its predecessor organisations the Royal Sc...","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2019.1703154","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47107251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Connecting health and the museum: An exhibition initiative by the National Health Council at the Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum, 1922–1924","authors":"Julie K. Brown","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2019.1678319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2019.1678319","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTConnecting health with the museum was an idea that emerged gradually in the early twentieth century, especially following World War I. In 1922, the recently founded National Health Council ...","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2019.1678319","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45239536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}