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Museums and the Culture of Copies aims to make the copying practices of museums visible and to discuss, from a range of interrelated perspectives, precisely what function copies fulfil in the heritage field and in museums today.
List of contents
Museums as cultures of copies
Introduction
Brita Brenna, Hans Dam Christensen, Olav Hamran
Section I: Models
Section 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Art and Science of Replication. Copies and Copying in the Multi-Disciplinary Museum
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Alice Blackwell, Peter Davidson, Martin Goldberg and Geoffrey N. Swinney
Chapter 2 - Knowing with models
Brita Brenna
Chapter 3 - Documenting, educating, recapturing – copying practices at the Norwegian Technical Museum
Olav Hamran
Chapter 4 - Mostly making models: The Scientific Use of Natural Heritage Collections
Henry McGhie
Section II: Mobility and instability
Section II Introduction
Chapter 5 - Lost Continents, Projective Objects
Mari Lending
Chapter 6 - Turkish Neo-Ottoman memory culture and the problems of copying the past
Gönül Bozoğlu and Christopher Whitehead
Chapter 7 - Replica Knowledge: Travelling Thrones
Felix Sattler & Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw
Chapter 8 - Looking for originals in a museum of copies? The ambivalence of the Thorvaldsens Museum
Hans Dam Christensen
Chapter 9 - Copying as Museum Branding: Souvenirs with Edvard Munch’s Bedspread Pattern
Joanna Iranowska
Section III: Body, Life and death
Section III Introduction
Chapter 10 - Ethnographic Mannequins: Copying as artefactualization of human difference
Anne Folke Henningsen
Chapter 11 - Constructing Museum Nature: Photography and Specimens in Natural History Museums around 1900
Liv Emma Thorsen
Chapter 12 - Faces of death. Death masks in the museum
Ole Marius Hylland
Section IV: Text as/of thing
Section IV Introduction
Chapter 13 - Commonplaces, copies, and copiousness
Anne Eriksen
Chapter 14 - The proof of the original is in the copying: Heavenly chain letters
Siv Frøydis Berg
Chapter 15 - Documenting museum objects: A practice of copying and a ‘copious’ practice?
Janne Werner Olsrud
Chapter 16 - Breaking the frames? The creation of digital curatorial agency at Swedish cultural historical museums
Bodil Axelsson
Chapter 17 - Towards a Future Museum of Copying
Marcus Boon
About the author
Brita Brenna is Professor of Museology and Head of Centre for Museum Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Hans Dam Christensen is Professor of Cultural Communication at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Olav Hamran is Head of Research and Development, Arts Council Norway.
Summary
Museums and the Culture of Copies aims to make the copying practices of museums visible and to discuss, from a range of interrelated perspectives, precisely what function copies fulfil in the heritage field and in museums today.
