Museums as Cultures of Copies: The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity (Hardcover)

Part One: Copying: Mimesis and memory

Introduction: Copying and museum practice

Brita Brenna, Hans Dam Christensen and Olav Hamran

1. Lost continents. Projective objects

Mari Lending

2. Malherbe, Peiresc and Rubens: An early modern history of creative commons?

Gro Bjørnerud Mo

3. Commonplaces, copies and copiousness

Anne Eriksen

4. Copies of history: The cultural politics of Neo-Ottoman reversions in Turkey

Chris Whitehead & Gonul Bozuglu

5. “In the beginning there were…copies!” Music, copies and mimesis

Owe Ronstrom

6. The truth is in the copying: A heavenly chain letter

Siv Frøydis Berg

7. Looking for originals in a museum of copies

Hans Dam Christensen

8. Copy before original: Animal photography in The Gothenburg Natural History around 1900

Liv Emma Thorsen

9. Copying human beings: Live-cast mannequins in museum practice

Anne Folke Henningsen

10. Dead specimen and copying as the origin of life

Henry McGhie

11. Faces of death: Death masks in the museum

Ole Marius Hylland

12. The art and science of replication

Sam Alberti, Alice Blackwell, Peter Davidson, Martin Goldberg and Geoff Swinney

13. Digital replicas and organizational change at Swedish cultural history museums

Bodil Axelsson

14. Travelling Thrones: Replica Knowledge

Felix Sattler and Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw

15. Edvard Munch’s motif of crosshatching: Copying as museum branding

Joanna Iranowska

16. Documenting, educating, recreating. Copying practices at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

Olav Hamran

17. Cataloguing museum objects: A practice of copying or a copious practice?

Janne Werner Olsrud

18. Model work: Writing, making, displaying and discussing models in an Eighteenth century

collection

Brita Brenna

19. Towards a Typology of Practices of Copying in the Museum

Marcus Boon