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Reflecting the now : project management and contemporary collecting in a multi-disciplinary museum

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Date
10/01/2018
Author
Alberti, Samuel J. M. M.
Allen, Stephen
Dectot, Xavier
Gill, Ruth
Keywords
Contemporary collecting
National Museum of Scotland
Project management
Reflective practice
AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General)
T-NDAS
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Abstract
Nearly two million visitors a year will pass through the new permanent galleries of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. This article reflects on the planning and collecting that presaged their redevelopment in the context of twenty-first century museum practice in the UK. We focus in particular on two elements: firstly, the fundamental project management work that underpins any development of this kind. Were established methodologies and practices conducive to open-ended, outcomes-based objectives such as research? Secondly, we ask this question specifically in relation to contemporary collecting in art, and in science. How can the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns of contemporary collecting be mainstreamed in project management workflows? What boundaries endure in museum processes and products?
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Alberti , S J M M , Allen , S , Dectot , X & Gill , R 2018 , ' Reflecting the now : project management and contemporary collecting in a multi-disciplinary museum ' , Museum and Society , vol. 15 , no. 3 , pp. 324-342 . https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v15i3.2427
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Museum and Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v15i3.2427
ISSN
1479-8360
Type
Journal article
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Copyright (c) 2018 The Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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URL
https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/2427
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17736

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