Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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result in a proposal for conservation, exhibition, or educational uses of the collection and facility, and perhaps a reinterpretation of the
paintings now in the gallery.
3. Brown University Library's stamp collections. Stamp collections at Brown range from comprehensive national and global
catalogues to thematic collections and mail-related items of more focused historical or design interests (e.g. a collection of decorative
envelopes addressed to Abraham Lincoln and sheets of stamps featuring printing errors). Despite the size of the collections, they are
rarely used in research or teaching. Well explore ways to increase knowledge of and interest in the collections by proposing model
uses and experimental projects, suggesting directions for future collecting and management, and producing an exhibition of the
collections for the John Hay Library's main exhibition gallery with supporting digital components.
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Date
In Class
Tuesday
In Class
Thursday
Week 1
9/10
------no class--------
Introduction to the
class
Week 2
9/15, 9/17
Tour of philately
collection at John
Hay Library and
AMBM
Tuesday Reading
Thursday Reading
Assignments
Assignment 1: Short
summary of the collections
we visited. What impressed
you? What surprised you?
What did you not see? 300500 words, Due 9/23
Week 3
9/22, 9/24
Collections
stewardship and
management
Philately. Introduction
to the exhibition
project.
Museum registration
and cataloging
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Marie C. Malaro, "Collection
Management Policies," in A
Legal Primer on Managing
Museum Collections.
Smithsonian Institution Press
(1985), 43-51.
Other readings of interest:
NPS Museum Handbook, Part
I, 6:1-6:11
Stephen L. Williams, Critical
Concepts concerning nonliving collections, Collections,
1:1, 2004.
Workshop: Philately
Exhibition
Workshop: Philately
Exhibition
Workshop: Philately
Exhibition,
Workshop: Philately
Exhibition
Week 6
10/13,
10/15
Collections
management and
access systems
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Metaphors for a Complex
World, Journal of Material
Culture June 2009 vol. 14 no.
2 189-218
Week 7
10/20,
10/22
Conservation and
storage
Workshop: Project
meetings
Barbara Appelbaum,
Conservation Treatment and
the Custodian/Conservator
Relationship
Week 8
10/27,
10/29
Exhibit workshop:
design and text
Exhibit workshop,
philately exhibit
Week 9
11/3, 11/5
Museum Collecting
and collecting
Introduction to
Browns scientific
6
planning
Why do museums
collect?
instruments. Where
they are, tools to
catalog them.
(OMEKA)
Week 10
11/10,
11/12
Collectors and
working with
collectors
Guest speaker:
Natasha Khandekar,
Annmary Brown
Memorial collections
G. Thomas Tanselle, A
Rationale of Collecting
Guest speaker:
Skype or visit from
Becky Soules
instruments. Choose
departments, visit them,
decide on tools for inventory.
Due 11/18
Rosemary Matthews,
Collectors and why they
collect: Isabella Stewart
Assignment 3: Compare
personal and museum
collecting. How are they
similar, how different? How
have museums, and how
should museums, work with
collectors? Provide some
examples. 300-500 words,
due 11/18
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Other readings
Shep Krech, Passionate
Hobby: Rudolf Frederick
Haffenreffer and the King
Philip Museum
Material Culture:
using artifacts in
research and public
outreach
Review of Scientific
Instruments and
Annmary Brown
proposals
Week 12
11/24,
11/26
Thanksgiving Holiday
Natasha Khendekar
on the art market
Assignment 4: Compare
NAGPRA and the rules for
the international trade in art
and antiques. How do they
differ, and why? How might
they be improved? 300-500
words, due 12/2
And/or
Bob Preucel on
Native American
collections
Week 13
12/1, 12/3
Workshop: Stamps
Workshop: TAG
Collections development
and management plan for
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Brown Stamp Collection due
12/9
Week 14
12/8,
12/10
Workshop: Scientific
Instruments
Workshop: Annmary
Brown
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