The Museum Curator’s Guide

Understanding, Managing and Presenting Objects

Nicola Pickering

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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
03 September 2020

Conservation, restoration & care of artworks; Museums & museology

The Museum Curator’s Guide is a practical reference book for emerging arts and heritage professionals working with a wide range of objects (including fine art, decorative arts, social history, ethnographic and archaeological collections), and explores the core work of the curator within a gallery or museum setting.

Nicola Pickering provides a clear introduction to current material culture and museum studies theories, and shows the practical application of these theories to museum collections. She considers the role of the curator, their duties and interaction with objects, and also examines the care or preservation of objects and the ways they can be catalogued, displayed, moved, arranged, stored, interpreted and explained in museums today.

The Museum Curator’s Guide represents an essential and lasting resource for all those working with the collection, preservation and presentation of objects, including students of collections management and curatorship; current gallery and museum professionals; and private collectors.

By: Nicola Pickering
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781848223240
ISBN 10: 1848223242
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 03 September 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Museums and Collecting - Chapter 1: What are museums?; Chapter 2: Collecting policies, composition and implementation; Part Two: Managing Collections - Chapter 3: Researching and accessioning objects; Chapter 4: Classifying, recording and cataloguing objects; Chapter 5: Handling, storing and preserving objects; Part Three: Displaying and Interpreting Collections - Chapter 6: Displaying objects; Chapter 7: Interpreting objects; Chapter 8: Museum audiences; Part Four: The Museum Curator - Chapter 9: The curator today and conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Dr Nicola Pickering is Teaching Fellow in Museum Studies at the University of Reading. She was formerly Senior Curator at London Transport Museum and Curator at Eton College and with the National Trust. She has contributed to the publications King's College Chapel 1515-2015: Music, Art and Religion in Cambridge (2014), The Country House, Material Culture and Consumption (2015) and Winckelmann in Italy: Curiosity and Connoisseurship in the Eighteenth-Century Gentleman's Study (2018).