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Title:

The museum in the cultural sciences : collecting, displaying, and interpreting material culture in the twentieth century / edited by Peter N. Miller.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xi, 317 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Historical museums--History--20th century.
Ethnological museums and collections--History--20th century.
Museum techniques--History--20th century.
Historical museums--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Ethnological museums and collections--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Ethnological museums and collections.
Historical museums.
Museum techniques.
Germany--Berlin.
1900-1999
History.

Other Authors:

Miller, Peter N., 1964- editor of series. editor of series.
Fisher, Annika, translator.
Schott, Nils, translator.
Container of (expression): Lauffer, Otto, 1874-1949. Das historische Museum: sein Wesen und Wirken und sein Unterschied von den Kunst- und Kunstgewerbe-Museen. English.
Container of (expression): Richter, Oswald, -1908. U˜ber die idealen und praktischen Aufgaben der ethnographischen Museen. English.

Other Titles:

Museumskunde 0027-4178

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"Berlin and its museums have been at the center of museum thinking for the last hundred years. Debates about the role and structure of museums played out in 1907 and 1910 with two striking series of articles that appeared in the journal Museumskunde: Journal for the Administration and Technology of Public and Private Collections. The first was a six-part essay by Otto Lauffer on history museums, and the second was a ten-part piece by Oswald Richter regarding ethnographic museums. Together, they initiated a century of significant dialogue. The Museum in the Cultural Sciences offers the first full English translations of these articles, which remain influential in conversations about the implications of art, historical, and ethnographic museums. They show how sophisticated the discussion of museums and museum display was in the early twentieth century and how much could be gained from revisiting these reflections in the current age -- just as the same collections discussed in these pages are reorganized yet again, and searching questions about patrimony, display, and repatriation reemerge"-- Dust jacket.
In early twentieth-century Berlin, Wilhelm von Bode sparked a controversy with his sweeping proposal to reorganize a group of the city's museums. Debates about the role and structure of museums played out in 1907 and 1910 with two striking series of articles that appeared in the journal 'Museumskunde: Journal for the Administration and Technology of Public and Private Collections'. The first was a six-part essay by Otto Lauffer on history museums, and the second was a ten-part piece by Oswald Richter regarding ethnographic museums. Together, they initiated a century of significant dialogue. 'The Museum in the Cultural Sciences' offers the first full English translations of these articles, which remain influential in conversations about the implications of art, historical, and ethnographic museums. They show how sophisticated the discussion of museums and museum display was in the early twentieth century and how much could be gained from revisiting these reflections today. Accompanied by short commentaries from museum professionals, these articles offer an intervention into and intensification of the current debate about museums, one that will be further invigorated by the opening of the Humboldt Forum--a pioneering partnership between art and science museums--in Berlin in 2020.

Series:

Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world

ISBN:

1941792162
9781941792162

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1231709694

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)