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Museums and Collections

Editors:
Mary Bouquet, University College Utrecht
Howard Morphy, The Australian National University, Canberra

Editorial Advisory Board:
Chris Gosden, University of Oxford
Corinne Kratz, Emory University, Atlanta
Susan Legêne, VU University Amsterdam
Sharon Macdonald, The University of Manchester
Anthony Shelton, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Paul Tapsell, University of Otago, Dunedin

As houses of memory and sources of information about the world, museums function as a dynamic interface between past, present and future. Museum collections are increasingly being recognized as material archives of human creativity and as invaluable resources for interdisciplinary research. Museums provide powerful forums for the expression of ideas and are central to the production of public culture: they may inspire the imagination, generate heated emotions and express conflicting values in their material form and histories. This series explores the potential of museum collections to transform our knowledge of the world, and for exhibitions to influence the way in which we view and inhabit that world. It offers essential reading for those involved in all aspects of the museum sphere: curators, researchers, collectors, students and the visiting public.

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