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The Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust cares for five venues in
Brighton and Hove, including the spectacular Royal Pavilion, a
royal palace created by George IV as his summer retreat, designed
in its final form by John Nash in a Moghul Indian style and set in
landscaped picturesque gardens. The Trust's other venues are
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery that holds important local history
and archaeology, world art, and decorative art collections; Preston
Manor a large house preserved in the Edwardian style with a
beautiful walled garden; The Booth Museum of natural history; and
Hove Museum and Art Gallery. The Trust cares for around one million
objects, many of international importance and covering a wide range
of subjects and types. In this enjoyable and richly illustrated
guide, Hedley Swain, the Trust's CEO, shares highlights from The
Trust's vast collections.
The difficult and sensitive issue of how museums and other
repositories should treat human remains in their possession is here
addressed through a number of important case studies. How to care
for, store, display and interpret human remains, and issues of
their ownership, are contentious questions, ones that need to be
answered with care and due consideration. This book offers a
systematic overview of the responses made by museums and other
repositories in the United Kingdom, providing a baseline for
understanding the scope and nature of human remains collections and
the practices related to their care. The introduction sets
UnitedKingdom practices within an international context, while
subsequent chapters, all written by leading experts, cover a wide
range of topics through key case studies: legislation and ethical
obligations; issues of both long-term andshort-term care; differing
perspectives associated with human remains collections in different
parts of the United Kingdom; a comparison of attitudes and
approaches in large institutions and small museums; the creative
use of redundant churches; and challenges facing research/teaching
laboratories and collections resulting from recent archaeological
excavations. Myra Giesen is Lecturer at the International Centre
for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University.
Contributors: Myra Giesen, Liz White, Hedley Swain, Charlotte
Woodhead, Kirsty McCarrison, Victoria Park, Jennifer Sharp, Mark A.
Hall, Rebecca Redfern, Jelena Bekvalac, Gillian Scott, Simon Mays,
Charlotte Roberts, Jacqueline I. McKinley, Mike Parker Pearson,
Mike Pitts, Duncan Sayer, Margaret Clegg.
An Introduction to Museum Archaeology provides a comprehensive
survey and synthesis of all aspects of current museum practice in
relation to the discipline of archaeology. Drawing heavily on
examples it deconstructs the different challenges posed by trying
to tell archaeological stories in museum buildings, and on related
sites. The final section sums up the state of museum archaeology in
the early 21st century and discusses the major issues it is
currently confronting. There is also a detailed list of every
museum and exhibit mentioned in the book, with a Web address and an
exhaustive list of references. An Introduction to Museum
Archaeology provides an essential text for anyone studying museums,
archaeology or cultural heritage and a reference for those working
in these fields. It is full of detailed information, and discusses
concepts and provides the context for current debates.
An Introduction to Museum Archaeology provides a comprehensive
survey and synthesis of all aspects of current museum practice in
relation to the discipline of archaeology. Drawing heavily on
examples it deconstructs the different challenges posed by trying
to tell archaeological stories in museum buildings, and on related
sites. The final section sums up the state of museum archaeology in
the early 21st century and discusses the major issues it is
currently confronting. There is also a detailed list of every
museum and exhibit mentioned in the book, with a Web address and an
exhaustive list of references. An Introduction to Museum
Archaeology provides an essential text for anyone studying museums,
archaeology or cultural heritage and a reference for those working
in these fields. It is full of detailed information, and discusses
concepts and provides the context for current debates.
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