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Manual of Curatorship A Guide to Museum Practice Second edition Editorial Board John M. A. ompson, BA, MA, FMA, Chairman Douglas A. Basse, BSC, PhD, FGS, FMA Antony J. Duggan, MD, BS, FRCP, FIBIOL, DTM, FMA Geoffrey D. Lewis, MA, FSA, HonFMA Alexander Fenton, CBE, MA, BA, DLi, HonDLi, FSA, FRSE, FRSGS Manual of Curatorship A Guide to Museum Practice First published 1984 by Buerworths Scientific Reprinted (with revisions) 1986 Second edition 1992 by Buerworth-Heinemann Reprinted 1994 is edition published 2012 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 ird Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © Museums Association 1984, 1992 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the wrien permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Toenham Court Road, London, England W1P 9HE. Applications for the copyright holder’s wrien permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ompson, John M. A. Manual of curatorship: a guide to museum practice. I. Title 069.5 ISBN 0 7506 0351 8 Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Manual of curatorship: a guide to museum practice/[edited by] John M. A. ompson. p. cm. Originally published: London; Boston: Buerworths, 1984. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0 7506 0351 8 1. Museum teniques – Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Museums–Administration – Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. ompson, John M.A. AM151.M32 1992 069’.5-dc20 91-43671 CIP Transferred to digital printing 2007 Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Section One: e Museum Context Section Editor Geoffrey Lewis 1 Introduction Geoffrey Lewis 2 Museums and their precursors: a brief world survey Geoffrey Lewis 3 Museums in Britain: a historical survey Geoffrey Lewis 4 e organization of museums Geoffrey Lewis 5 e Museums & Galleries Commission Peter Longman 6 Enabling legislation for museums Geoffrey Lewis 7 National museums Sir David M. Wilson 8 e national galleries Michael Compton 9 University museums Alan Warhurst 10 Local authority museums and galleries Brian Loughbrough 11 Independent museums Neil Cossons 12 Ethics of curatorship in the UK Antony J. Duggan Section Two: Management and Administration Section Editor John Thompson 13 e role of the Director John Thompson 14 Financial management Frank Atkinson 15 Museums and marketing Peter Lewis 16 Personnel management Michael Diamond 17 e management of volunteers J. Patrick Greene 18 e management of museum buildings Max Hebditch 19 Building a new museum: the roles and relationship of curator and aritect in planning and project management Richard Marks 20 Security Bryan Dovey 21 Information tenology in museums Tim H. Pettigrew 22 Law and legislation Patrick Sudbury and C. K. Wilson Further reading Section ree: Conservation Section Editor Peter N. Lowell 23 Introduction Peter N. Lowell 24 Documenting collections Sheila M. Stone 25 Conservation documentation Michael Corfield 26 Control and measurement of the environment Sarah Staniforth 27 Buildings, environment and artefacts Trevor Skempton 28 Conservation and storage: arival paper Michael Bottomley 29 Conservation and storage: prints, drawings and water-colours Jane McAusland 30 Conservation and storage: easel paintings David Bomford and James Dimond 31 Conservation and storage: photographic materials Anne Fleming and Elizabeth Martin 32 Conservation and storage: textiles Jean M. Glover 33 Conservation and storage: leather objects C. V. Horie 34 Conservation and storage: wood John Kitchin 35 Conservation and storage: ceramics Christine Daintith 36 Conservation and storage: stone Jennifer K. Dinsmore 37 Conservation and storage: metals Hazel Newey 38 Conservation and storage: mainery John Hallam 39 Conservation and storage: araeological material Elizabeth Pye 40 Conservation and storage: geological material Francis M. P. Howie
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