TY - CHAP
T1 - Spatial Narratives in Museums and Online
T2 - The Birth of the Digital Object Itinerary
AU - Dunn, Stuart Edale
AU - Earl, Graeme Peter
AU - Wootton, William Thomas
AU - Foka, Anna
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Museums represent complex layers of place. From carefully managed curatorial spaces, to exhibition environments, to the layout of display cases, to the representation of distant parts embodied in the collections of the great encyclopedic collections, the negotiation, representation and presentation of place has always been central to the mission of any museum. This chapter will examine the history of how museums (especially museum catalogues) present place, from early origins to the Internet. A set of case studies will be examined as a means of exploring how, where and in what form art objects and artefacts first began to be transported from non-Western to Western nations for display in the museums of Western capitals, thus representing the origins of what Cuno has called our “basic and inevitable cultural interrelatedness”; and what others have called “object itineraries” or “object biographies”. A comparison will be made of the same museums’ online representation of the same places today. It will thus be possible to present a framework for considering object itineraries – historic and modern - as a subject of both history and historiography.
AB - Museums represent complex layers of place. From carefully managed curatorial spaces, to exhibition environments, to the layout of display cases, to the representation of distant parts embodied in the collections of the great encyclopedic collections, the negotiation, representation and presentation of place has always been central to the mission of any museum. This chapter will examine the history of how museums (especially museum catalogues) present place, from early origins to the Internet. A set of case studies will be examined as a means of exploring how, where and in what form art objects and artefacts first began to be transported from non-Western to Western nations for display in the museums of Western capitals, thus representing the origins of what Cuno has called our “basic and inevitable cultural interrelatedness”; and what others have called “object itineraries” or “object biographies”. A comparison will be made of the same museums’ online representation of the same places today. It will thus be possible to present a framework for considering object itineraries – historic and modern - as a subject of both history and historiography.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067912146&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-97457-6_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-97457-6_12
M3 - Chapter
T3 - Springer Series on Cultural Computing
SP - 253
EP - 271
BT - Springer Series on Cultural Computing
PB - Springer
ER -