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DEFINING THE MODERN MUSEUM A Case Study of the Challenges of Exchange This page intentionally left blank Defining the Modern Museum A Case Study of the Challenges of Exchange LIANNE McTAvISH UNIvERSITy OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © University of Toronto Press 2013 Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com Printed in Canada isbn 978-1-4426-4443-4 Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper with vegetable-based inks. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication McTavish, Lianne Defining the modern museum : a case study of the challenges of exchange / Lianne McTavish. (Cultural spaces) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-4426-4443-4 1. New Brunswick Museum – Case studies. 2. Museums – Case studies. 3. Museum techniques – Case studies. I. Title. II. Series: Cultural spaces am21.n4m37 2013 069.0971591 c2012-906128-x University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for its publishing activities. For my former colleagues in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick This page intentionally left blank Contents Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Impossible Museum 3 1 Exchanging values in the Nineteenth-Century Museum Marketplace 22 2 Learning to See: vision, visuality, and Material Culture, 1862–1929 48 3 Offering Orientalism: Women and the Gift Economy of the Museum, 1880–1940 71 4 Libraries and Museums: Shifting Relationships, 1830–1940 105 5 Gendered Professionals: Debating the Ideal Museum Worker during the 1930s and 1940s 129 Conclusion 153 Notes 159 Bibliography 201 Index 215 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations i.1 Exterior of the New Brunswick Museum (est. 1929), Douglas Avenue location, Saint John, opened 1933. 10 i.2 Façade of the New Brunswick Museum, Market Square, Saint John. 11 2.1 L. Marie Hansen and R. Florence Harned in the School Service Department, New Brunswick Museum. 54 2.2 Genevieve Thorne and Gloria Roulston in the School Service Department, New Brunswick Museum. 55 3.1 Unidentified members of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, Oriental Exhibition, January 1924. 72 3.2 Overall view of display cases in the Art Department of the New Brunswick Museum, 1930s–1940s. 73 3.3 Façade of the Museum of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, purchased in 1907, Saint John (now destroyed). 79 3.4 Interior of the Museum of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, Oriental Exhibition. 81 3.5 Bridal crown, South China, brass, beads, and Kingfisher feather, likely Qing Dynasty. 88 3.6 Shoe for bound foot, China, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), cotton, silk, dyes, leather, wood, and metallic paper. 91 3.7 Case in the Art Department of the New Brunswick Museum, c. 1930s–1940s, featuring Chinese ceramics from the Han Dynasty. 97 3.8 Case in the Art Department of the New Brunswick Museum, c. 1930s–1940s, featuring Chinese ceramics from the Tang Dynasty. 98
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