Museums and the Future of Collecting

Contents: Preface; Altered values: searching for a new collecting, Simon Knell; Collections and collecting, Susan Pearce; Museums without collections: museum philosophy in West Africa, Malcolm McLeod; The future of collecting: lessons from the past, Richard Dunn; The Ashmolean Museum: a case study of 18th century collecting, Patricia Kell; The cartographies of collecting, Rebecca Duclos; From curio to cultural document, Barbara Lawson; Contemporary popular collecting, Paul Martin; Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion, Gaynor Kavanagh; Collecting in time of war, Zarka Vujic; The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa, Graham Dominy; Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from 'deviant' groups, Nicola Clayton; All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils, John Martin; What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland, Michael Taylor; Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork, Janet Owen; Collecting: reclaiming the art, systematising the technique, Linda Young; Samdok: tools to make the world visible, Anna Steen; Professionalising collecting, Barbro Bursell; Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums, MarA-a GarcA-a, Carmen Chinea and Jose FariA+/-a; Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings, Jean-Marc Gagnon and Gerald Fitzgerald; Ranking collections, Martin Wickham; Deaccessioning as a collections management tool, Patricia Ainslie; Collecting live performance, James Fowler; Redefining collecting, Tomislav Sola; Index.