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reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia

cover of reCollections journal volume 1, number 2

Volume 1, Number 2

reCollections is an independent, peer-reviewed journal focused on museology, museum practice, the history and interpretation of objects, and the social and environmental history of material culture.

Volume 1, Number 2 (September 2006) includes papers on the representation of conflict on the Australian frontier, zoological specimens at the National Museum, and the origins of Australia's folk museums.

A commentary piece discusses the networked model of management at Museum Victoria.

Reviewed books include Civilizing the museum: The collected writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian, Thriving in the knowledge age: New business models for museums and other cultural institutions, and Memory, monuments and museums: The past in the present.

Our exhibition reviewers visit Colliding worlds: First contact in the Western Desert, Exhibiting James Cook: Cook's sites and Cook's Pacific encounters, and On the box: Great moments in Australian television 1956–2006.

ISSN 1833-1335
Paperback, 82 pages, 250 x 176mm, colour
$49.95
Published September 2006