History Curatorship

Kavanagh offers a framework for current and future museum action and argues the case for imaginative, relevant curatorship, responsive to the evidence of social change. She also argues for a more caring and cooperative relationship with the public and with museum visitors.

Based on original contributions by specialists, this manual covers both the theory and the practice required in the management of museums. It is intended for all museum and art gallery profession staff, and includes sections on new technology, marketing, volunteers and museum libraries.

Manual of Natural History Curatorship

The Bibliography is a vital guide to literature sources on history making within the personal and public domains, with specific reference to history museums and collections. It begins with an essay in which history making in museums - through collections, exhibitions and interpretative work - is considered in relation to social trends and popular interest. The essay charts some of the dominant characteristics of museum provision. The central section of the book is a detailed bibliography concluding with reviews of those works which are particularly recommended.

Curating Art provides insight into some of the most socially and politically impactful curating of historical and contemporary art since the late 1990s. It offers up a museological framework for understanding watershed developments of curating in art museums. Representing the plurality of theory and practice around the expanded field of relational curating, the book focuses on curating that prioritises the quality of relationships between people and objects, between institutions and people and among people. It has wide international breadth, with particularly strong representation in East and Southeast Asia, including four papers never before translated into English. This Asian cluster illuminates the globalisation of the field and challenges dichotomies of East and West while acknowledging distinctions within specific, but often transnational, cultural spheres. The compelling philosophical perspectives and case studies included within Curating Art will be of interest to students and researchers studying curating, exhibition development and art museums. The book will also inspire current and emerging curators to pose challenging but important questions about their own practice and the relationships that this work sustains.