Museum Storage and Meaning : Tales from the Crypt (Paperback)

1. Introduction 2.Performances of Museum Storage 3.Visible storage, visible labour? 4.Serendipity, Transparency, and Wonder: The Value of Visitable Storage 5.Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian, in conversation with Mirjam Brusius 6.To Store is to Save: Kenneth C. Murray and the founding of the Nigerian Museum, Lagos7.“Essential Cure for Dying Museums”: Clarence S. Stein and Study-storage 8.‘Storage’ and ‘Display’: Local Museum Practices in India 9.Home from Homes: The Movement of Things from Families to Museums 10.Home Storage: The Reception and Treatment of Domestic Collections of Aeronautica by the Science Museum and the National Air and Space Museum 11.Preserving Preservation. Maintaining Meaning in Museum Storage 12.Hidden Histories: Museum Taxidermy Rediscovered 13.The Animals went in Two by Two: Shifts in the Classification and Display of Taxidermy in the Seen and Unseen Spaces of Public Museums 14.Storage and Sharing: A Suggestion for the Future of Collections of forgeries' 15.Upstairs, Downstairs. The National Gallery's dual collections 16. The double life of ‘Oriental’ textiles at the Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens: interpreting storage and displayability of Ottoman silks in 20th century Greece 17.Lying in wait: inertia and latency in the collection 18.Clothing, Care and Compromise: A Case Study of the Storage of the Hodson Shop Collection, 1983-2015 19.Loose Bodies: Reserve Collections, Curatorial Reserva