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Volume 3, 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 3, Number 2 (October 2008) Paul Eggert traces some changes in museum practices from the 1960s and argues that there is a need for a rebalancing of museums' twin obligations towards artefacts and the visitor, and Linda Young looks at the management and interpretation of the so-called Cooks' Cottage in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, which, although never inhabited by Captain James Cook, is widely believed by visitors to have strong connections to Australia's foundation hero.
In commentary, Craddock Morton reflects on how the competing forces of ideology, politics, time, space and funding affected the early development of the National Museum of Australia, and Nicholas Brown draws on a series of workshops in which postgraduate students from around Australia with an interest in biography found connections between their work and the role of contemporary museums.
Reviewed books are Museum frictions: Public cultures/global transformations, Museum revolutions: How museums change and are changed, Walter Rothschild: The man, the museum and the menagerie, Mastering a museum plan: Strategies for exhibit development, and Museums and their communities.
Our exhibition reviewers visit League of legends: 100 years of rugby league in Australia, Lawrence of Arabia and the Light Horse, Flying boats: Sydney's golden age of aviation, Conflicts 1945 to today, and Art Deco 1910—1939.
ISSN 1833-1335
Paperback, 78 pages, 250 x 176mm, colour
$49.95
Published October 2008
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