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"Wherever we are, and whatever we collect, we can all learn from the narratives in this book.”
Museums and the Material World: Collecting the Arabian Peninsula explores major themes which underpin collections of all types in all places:
* locality, identity and object;
* the relevance of the character of the collector, and their view of collecting;
* the intangible aspect of tangible objects;
* and the ongoing changes in the management of collections.
And the book examines these through the lens of the area which is undergoing “the most explosive per capita museum building boom in history”. An area in which exponential growth is fuelled by many new methods of amassing, preserving or recording the collections which fill them: public or private, archaeological, historical or artistic...
With 13 case-studies, over 500 pages, and 35 colour illustrations, Museums and the Material World includes the following chapters:
Introduction
Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Museum Director, Northwestern University jn Qatar.
Archaeological Collecting in Saudi Arabia
Virginia Cassola, Ecole du Louvre & University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France
Collecting the Collection: Changing Qataris’ Attitudes and Practices
Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla, Assistant Professor of History, Qatar University
Preserving Heritage: Costume Collections in the Gulf
Alex Aubry, Curator, Chicago, USA
“To learn from past experiences”: Collecting the UAE National Archives
Abdulla M. El Reyes, Director General, The National Archives of the United Arab Emirates
One Long Adventure: Collecting Scottish-Yemeni History
Friederike Voigt and Victoria Adams, Curators, National Museums Scotland
Lost in Translation?: Private Collections in Qatar
Karen Exell, Lecturer in Museum Studies, UCL Qatar
Collecting Islamic Art in Qatar – What’s New?
Aisha Mellah, University of Copenhagen
Al Sadu Collection: Preserving Bedouin Weaving
Patricia Joyce Redding, Beit Al Sadu, Kuwait
Curating a Collection at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Curator; Founding Director Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
Documenting and Collecting Textiles in Saudi Arabia
Konstantinos Chatziantoniou, Head of Collections & Conservation, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Saudi Arabia
Collective Opportunities: Collections Management in Qatar
David Taylor, Qatar Museums Authority; Laura Phillips, The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, USA; Nisreen Al Malek, Msheireb Museums, Qatar; and Noora Alathbah, Qatar Museums Authority
Coveting the Wearable: Collecting Vintage Couture in the Gulf
Alex Aubry, Curator, Chicago, USA
Connecting Heritage Collections to a Future-Oriented Emirati Culture
Sahar Mohammed Sharif, Community Programs Analyst, The Boeing Company, Seattle
The Editor, Dr Pamela Erskine-Loftus, is Museum Director with Northwestern University in Qatar. She has held senior positions in the USA (MoMA), UAE (Sharjah Museums Department), and Qatar (Qatar Museums Authority).
If you're involved in any way with collections development or management you won't want to miss this stimulating book!
Graeme Farnell
Publisher, MuseumsEtc
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