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Volume 2, 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.
In Volume 2, Number 2 (September 2007) Alexandra Sauvage explores the origins and historical context of Paris's Musée de quai Branly, Geoffrey Gray focuses on shifts in perceived ownership of the Sydney University ethnographic collection, Belinda Nemec traces Percy Grainger's quest for immortality through the endowment of his museum at the University of Melbourne, and Ian McShane analyses aspects of the National Museum of Australia's institutional history in the context of wider developments in cultural and heritage policy.
This issue also features a commentary piece by Philip Jones inspired by his work on the South Australian Museum exhibition on Afghan cameleers in Australia.
Reviewed books are Edge of empire: Conquest and collecting in the East 1750–1850, New museums and the making of culture, What makes a great exhibition?
and Judging exhibitions: A framework for assessing excellence, Museum management and marketing, Exhibiting Maori: A history of colonial cultures of display, Handbook of material culture, and Museum branding: How to create and maintain image, loyalty, and support.
Our exhibition reviewers visit Bridging Sydney, Indigenous motivations: Recent acquisitions from the National Museum of the American Indian, Australia's Muslim cameleers: Pioneers of the inland, 1860s–1930s, Cinema India: The art of Bollywood, and George W Lambert retrospective: Heroes & icons.
ISSN 1833-1335
Paperback, 117 pages, 250 x 176mm, colour
$49.95
Published September 2007
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