Vol 17, No 3 (2019)

On the Properties of Things: Collective Knowledge and the Objects of the Museum

Table of Contents

Introduction: On the Properties of Things: Collective Knowledge and the Objects of the Museum
Janine Rogers, Sophie Thomas
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282-288

Aga Khan Workshop Overview

‘Whose Object is it Anyway?’ – Four Workshops at the Aga Khan Museum investigating the ‘Properties of Things’
Ulrike Al-Khamis
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289-294

Object Biographies

On Objects and Things: The Wilkie Wedding Dress and the Drawings of Sarah Casey
Ingrid E. Mida
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295-300
The Presence, Provenance and Presentness of a Non Artifact
David Alexander Pantalony
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301-306
Artifact Biography: A Variable Colour Mixer
Erich Weidenhammer
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307-312

Feature

Joséphine Michel, from The Heat Equation
Sophie Thomas
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313-315

Articles

Making Fun of the Museum: Multidisciplinarity, Holism, and 'The Return of Curiosity'
Ruth Phillips
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316-341
Science and the Language of Natural History Museum Architecture: Problems of Interpretation
John Robert Holmes
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342-361
Delight or Disgust? The Afterlife of Anatomical Waxworks
Marla Dobson, Emma Rosalind Peacocke
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362-376
What’s your dinosaur? Or, imaginative reconstruction and absolute truth in the museum space
Jordan Kistler, Will Tattersdill
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377-389
The hybrid exhibits of the story museum: The child as creative artist and the limits to hands-on participation
Naomi Hamer
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390-403
‘Visual Histories’ Science Visualization in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Museums
Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel
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404-421

Supplement

When Memorials Cease to Commemorate: The Museum of the History of Political Repression in Tomsk as a Place of non-Patriotic Remembering
Dmitriy Skulskiy
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422-436
‘More like an Arcade’ – The Limitations of Playable Games in Museum Exhibitions
Patrick Prax, Lina Eklund, Björn Sjöblom
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437-452
‘Permanent Displays’ as Unsettling Layers of Epistemologies, Politics and Aesthetics
Sigrid Lien, Hilde Wallem Nielssen
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453-471
Anthropology, Museums and the Body: Lessons From an Experimental Teaching Environment
Gwyneira Isaac, Kate Clark, Kelsey Adams, Heather Ashe, Katie Benz, Delaney Cummings, David Gassett, Francine Margolis, Amanda Quink, Emily Somberg
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472-493
Museums and indigenous memory: the Katxuyana’s collections and the contemporaneity of musealized material culture
Adriana Russi, Astrid Kieffer-Døssing
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494-509
The ‘Manchester Together Archive’: researching and developing a museum practice of spontaneous memorials
Kostas Arvanitis
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510-532
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Anthropology, Museums and the Body: Lessons from an Experimental Teaching Environment
Gwyneira Isaac, Kate Clark, Kelsey Adams, Heather Ashe, Katie Benz, Delaney Cummings, Francine Margolis, David Gassett, Amanda Quink, Emily Somberg
472-493

Exhibition Reviews

Exhibition Review: Beyond Compare - Art from Africa in the Bode Museum.
Annette Loeseke
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533-535

Book Reviews

Laurajane Smith, Margaret Wetherell and Gary Campbell (eds.), Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present
Cesare Cuzzola
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536-537