Object-love at the Science Museum: cultural geographies of museum storerooms
Object-love at the Science Museum: cultural geographies of museum storerooms
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DOI：
10.1177/1474474014539247
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发表时间：
2015-07
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
H. Geoghegan;Alison Hess
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作者：
H. Geoghegan;Alison Hess
随着地理学家和博物馆研究学者理解建造和改造博物馆的人、事物、实践和建筑之间的空间关系，博物馆地理学领域正在呈现出新的意义。为了加强博物馆的这种空间兴趣，本文在文化地理学的最新工作和关于爱、物质性和博物馆效应的博物馆研究之间建立了重要的联系。本文标志着我们不再关注博物馆的公共空间，而是深入伦敦科学博物馆的幕后，探索布莱斯之家 (Blythe House) 中很少有人参观但仍然热闹的中小型物品储藏室。本文结合了基于布莱斯之家博物馆储藏室的两个研究项目的实地日记和访谈摘录，生动地呈现了博物馆馆长和管理员以及他们所关心的物品之间发生的社交互动。这种对物品热爱的关注使学者们能够重新思考博物馆是什么、它们的用途、博物馆藏品在储藏室中的生命，以及专业策展和保护的情感实践。这次走进布莱斯故居储藏室的旅程清楚地表明了对物品的热爱如何塑造博物馆空间。
The field of museum geography is taking on new significance as geographers and museum-studies scholars make sense of the spatial relations between the people, things, practices and buildings that make and remake museums. In order to strengthen this spatial interest in museums, this paper makes important connections between recent work in cultural geography and museum studies on love, materiality and the museum effect. This paper marks a departure from the preoccupation with the public spaces of museums to go behind the scenes of the Science Museum in London to explore its rarely visited, but nonetheless lively, small-to-medium-sized object storerooms at Blythe House. Incorporating field diary entries and interview extracts from two research projects based upon the museum storerooms at Blythe House, this paper brings to life the social interactions that take place between museum curators and conservators and the objects they care for. This focus on object-love enables scholars to consider anew what museums are and what they are for, the life of the museum object in the storeroom, and the emotional practices of professional curatorship and conservation. This journey into the storeroom at Blythe House makes explicit how object-love shapes museum space.