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The Museum Curator's Guide is a reference book for professionals starting out in the arts and museum sector, drawing on the author's curatorial and academic expertise.
List of contents
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
About the author
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).
Summary
The Museum Curator's Guide is a reference book for professionals starting out in the arts and museum sector, drawing on the author's curatorial and academic expertise.
