{"title":"Te Papa: Reinventing New Zealand’s national museum 1998-2018","authors":"G. Lehman","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2019.1646096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2019.1646096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2019.1646096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46432635","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":"‘Collective wisdom’ at the National Archaeological Museum in Portugal","authors":"Elisabete Pereira, M. Lopes, M. D. F. Nunes","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2019.1731148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2019.1731148","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to highlight the scientific practices of a range of ‘invisible technicians’ in order to provide a more complete understanding of the history of the National Archaeologica...","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2019.1731148","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43107602","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":"Museums in the Second World War: curators, culture and change","authors":"Ana Baeza Ruiz","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2019.1644717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2019.1644717","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2019.1644717","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41341776","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":"Bone rooms: from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums","authors":"A. Aranui","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2019.1644723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2019.1644723","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2019.1644723","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45142772","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":"Finding back Carlos Berg’s fish specimens: Naturalist preparation and collection management in object biography and conservation","authors":"Amandine Péquignot, G. Chiaramonte","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2020.1731166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2020.1731166","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2020.1731166","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49262450","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 Berlin to Belém: Theodor Koch-Grünberg’s Rio Negro collections","authors":"Erik Petschelies","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2019.1609875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2019.1609875","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During his expedition to the rivers Rio Negro and Japurá between 1903 and 1905, the German ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grünberg amassed an ethnographic collection. Part of it he sold to the Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin and a smaller part was purchased by the Swiss naturalist Emílio Goeldi for the Museu Paraense in Belém, in northern Brazil. A number of aspects arise from this singular transaction: research funding (including institutional and personal relations) at the beginning of the institutionalisation of anthropology; the importance of German speaking intellectuals to the development of natural sciences and ethnography of Brazil; the social and economic importance of collecting and the complexity of local political relations. The aim of this article is to analyze the social context in which this collection was formed, with special attention to the indigenous agency and social relations around material culture. It seeks to contribute to the history of collections, the history of science in Brazil and of the transatlantic relations between Brazilian museums and German ethnology.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2019.1609875","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45737711","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":"Museum, archaeology and nation: González Suárez and the Sociedad de Estudios Histórico-Americanos in early twentieth-century Ecuador","authors":"María Elena Bedoya Hidalgo","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2019.1613609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2019.1613609","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article proposes an analytical reading of the ways in which an Ecuadorian museology was conceived at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Ecuadorian state, unlike other countries in the region, showed little interest in promoting and sponsoring the establishment of academies or institutes for the research of history in specialised circuits that were linked with ideas of the public museum. The construction of a national museum of archaeology was a process that began in the nineteenth century and involved a specialised scientific sociability that sustained this process as history, anthropology and archaeology were in development as sciences in those years. People such as Federico González Suárez and a Catholic conservative elite participated in this process during the first decades of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2019.1613609","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43769608","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":"Vibrant pasts in museum drawers: Advances in the study of late precolonial (AD 800–1500) materials collected from north-central Venezuela","authors":"A. Antczak, M. Antczak, Catarina Guzzo Falci","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2019.1609870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2019.1609870","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Starting in the second half of the nineteenth century, museums and private collectors across the Americas and Europe began amassing objects produced by the indigenous peoples of north-central Venezuela before the European conquest. The rich imagery displayed on decorated pottery and figurines, as well as on skilfully made body ornaments, strongly appealed to the aesthetic tastes of the museum curators and visitors of that time. With some laudable exceptions, most of the excavations that expanded these collections did not follow the archaeological practice standards of our time and did not leave behind any written reports. In consequence, these objects and associated data have remained disconnected from subsequent advances in regional archaeology. In this paper, we provide a general overview of the diverse archaeological collections from the region under study and insert them, critically, into the current understanding of north-central Venezuelan archaeology. We go on to focus on body adornments in order to show how microwear analysis of their production, along with the use wear traces they exhibit, combined with data concerning raw material procurement and depositional contexts, can shed light on the intricacies of the social life of these objects. We argue that up-to-date knowledge of regional archaeology interwoven with new interdisciplinary approaches on museum collections enables researchers to resuscitate the vibrant indigenous pasts lying in museum drawers.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2019.1609870","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43003022","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":"Bundling objects, documents, and practices: Collecting Andean mummies from 1850 to 1930","authors":"Maria Patricia Ordóñez","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2019.1609871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2019.1609871","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents research on the relationship between objects, documents, and the practice of collecting Andean mummies by European national museums in the period from 1850 to 1930. Over 200 mummies were analysed as part of this research. These mummies are kept by 18 different national museums in Western European countries. The comparative examination of these mummified human remains and their associated documentation kept by the museums has highlighted the importance of considering the process of formation of collections. This is especially true when dealing with sensitive archaeological ‘objects’ during a specific historical timeframe, and within a contemporary setting. The importance of considering museum collections as embedded in global narratives, rather than isolated cases of collecting, is also highlighted in this article.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2019.1609871","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44651845","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":"Undocumented objects: The collection Cavalcanti at Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden","authors":"Rita Santos","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2019.1613625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2019.1613625","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Marquesa de Cavalcanti Collection kept at the Volkenkunde Museum, in Leiden, the Netherlands, is one of the oldest records of the existence of Brazilian objects in this museum. It is part of a broader collection created for the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition, held in 1882, and for the Universal Exhibition in Paris, held in 1889. The main focus of this article is on the itineraries of this collection from its first exhibitions in Brazil and Paris to the Volkenkunde collection in Leiden. Despite the challenge posed by lack of documentation to understand the ‘social life’ of objects, we believe that the investigation of the itineraries of collections and the analysis of different social relations inscribed in objects may provide a key to understanding the history of ethnographic and archaeological collections. This article analyses how collections connected colonial regions to metropolitan areas in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the particular case of Brazil, Paris, and the Netherlands. It further discusses the role of women in the production of archaeological and ethnographic collections and, consequently, their place in the production of anthropological and archaeological knowledge.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2019.1613625","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48323781","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}