Exploring Emotion, Care and Enthusiasm in "unloved" Museum Collections
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 139013028
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Arc Humanities Press
- ISBN
- 9781641890557
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This is a co-edited volume by Anna Woodham (KCL) Rhianedd Smith (University of Reading) and Alison Hess (Science Museum Group) stemming from the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project ‘Who Cares: Interventions in “Unloved” Museum Collections’ a collaborative project between three large UK museums and two higher education establishments. Woodham was co-investigator on the project, leading one of the case studies between the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and the Historic Metallurgy Society. A key output of the project was a conference held at the Science Museum, London in November 2015. The event bought together museum professionals and academics and the presentations formed the basis of the volume. The main aim of the volume is to shed light on the use of the millions of objects that are in storage in museum collections and to explore the emotional potential of these objects for particular groups and communities. Woodham contributed to the book as a specialist in museum collections and their management. Her principle contribution was as lead editor over the duration of the book project. She wrote the book proposal, co-ordinated contributors' submissions and edited their contributions post peer-review. Woodham lead the authorship of the introduction and, in addition, co-authored the volume’s conclusion with Smith. Chapter 3 is based on Woodham’s primary research at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. it is significant because it critiques notions of care in relation to stored museum collections, exploring who is included and excluded from the stewardship of such collections. The research relocates these discussions towards objects housed in the liminal spaces of the museum’s collections storerooms and other ‘behind-the -scenes’ spaces. Woodham had 85% authorship of the chapter along with the Museum Practitioner/Archaeologist Shane Kelleher who managed the “unloved” collection the chapter focuses on.
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- Non-English
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