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Cabinets for the Curious - Looking Back at Early English Museums (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Cabinets for the Curious - Looking Back at Early English Museums (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Perspectives on Collecting
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The last few years has, within museums, witnessed nothing short of
a revolution. Worried that the very institution was itself in
danger of becoming a dusty, forgotten, culturally irrelevant
exhibit, vigorous efforts have been made to reshape the museum
mission. Fearing that history was coming to be ignored by modern
society, many institutions have instead marketed a
de-intellectualised heritage, overly relying on computer technology
to captivate a contemporary audience. The theme of this work is
that we can do much to reassess the rationale that inspires
contemporary collections through a study of seventeenth century
museums. England's first museums were quite literally wonderful;
founded that is on the disciplined application of the faculty of
wonder. The type of wonder employed was not that post-Romantic idea
of disbelief, but rather an active form of curiosity developed
during the Renaissance, particularly by the individuals who set
about gathering objects and founding museums to further their
enquiries. The argument put forward in this book is that this
museological practice of using objects actually to create, as well
as disseminate knowledge makes just as much sense today as it did
in the seventeenth century and, further, that the best way of
reinvigorating contemporary museums, is to return to that form of
wonder. By taking such a comparative approach, this book works both
as a scholarly historical text, and as an historically informed
analysis of the key issues facing today's museums. As such, it will
prove essential reading both for historians of collecting and
museums, and for anyone interested in the philosophies of modern
museum management.
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