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Museums Lives: Oral history and the Natural History Museum

博物馆的生命：口述历史和自然历史博物馆

基本信息

批准号：
AH/F016883/1
负责人：
Brian Cathcart
金额：
$ 33.48万
依托单位：
Kingston University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2008 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF016883%2F1
关键词：
Museums Lives Oral history Natural

项目摘要

The Natural History Museum is a world-class repository of 70 million specimens and an international centre of excellence in scientific study with a rich tradition of informing the public about the natural world. Its staff have personal knowledge of the Museum's history, staffing, collection development, methodologies and exhibitions which constitute an important cultural resource, yet there is no sustained programme to capture these memories. Museum Lives aims to rectify this and to create a high-quality multimedia resource for scholarship, education and exhibitions that will enrich the historical record and add new dimensions to the collections which will attract fresh audiences. Museum Lives grows out of the AHRC-funded New Perspectives project, in the course of which the NHM management has expressed concern at the loss of knowledge as Museum staff move on. Over the next five years, for example, 24 specialist staff will retire, representing 775 years of experience. While their publications concentrate on advancing knowledge in their specialist fields, their memories have value in disciplines such as science history, museum practice, sociology, management, politics, anthropology, geography and education. Kingston University, through the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and its partner the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences (FHSCS), has specialised skills to address this urgent need by capturing this information in ways that will maximise its value for the Museum, its public and the academic community. A KTF is the ideal means of transferring these skills. Kingston FASS and the FHSCS, together with the Museum, propose a three-year KTF to create an oral history programme based on best current practice and tailored to the Museum's needs. It will draw on knowledge in the two faculties to ensure the outputs meet the needs of a broad range of stakeholders. The long-term aim is to embed the programme in the Museum's work so that preservation of knowledge on these lines becomes routine. Volunteer oral historians will also be trained, staff will receive help in recording their own memories and the project will stimulate the recovery of lost knowledge through themed 'witness seminars'. The core project will create records relating to 50 interview subjects from across the Museum staff. This number reflects the exceptional experience of the subjects, the value of their knowledge and the quality of the multimedia outputs. For example, a curator's biography will be researched and he or she will be interviewed at length on camera, generating a searchable archive record and transcript. From this material themes will be identified for short films made to production standards suitable for educational and exhibition use -- often shot alongside specimens of which the curator has particular knowledge. Such films will be permanently linked to the specimens in the Museum's digital database and may also be used in connection with the specimens in public exhibition.The oral history resource will be available in edited form for public viewing on the Museum website and will be designed to be capable of use in the Museum's public exhibitions and learning programmes. By adding a new human and cultural dimension to artefacts hitherto recorded primarily as taxonomic objects, this could be a powerful tool in engaging new audiences. The material will be available to school and college students working on projects related to the collection, and to artists, filmmakers, broadcasters, writers and poets who can use these stories as inspiration. The National Life Story Collection has been extensively 'mined' in this way, while the Columbia Oral History office has formed the basis for more than 1,000 books.

自然历史博物馆是一个世界级的7000万标本库，也是一个卓越的国际科学研究中心，具有向公众介绍自然世界的丰富传统。博物馆的工作人员对博物馆的历史、人员配置、藏品开发、方法和展览有着个人的了解，这些都是重要的文化资源，但没有持续的计划来捕捉这些记忆。博物馆生活旨在纠正这一点，并为学术，教育和展览创造一个高质量的多媒体资源，丰富历史记录，并为吸引新观众的收藏品增加新的维度。博物馆生活源于AHRC资助的新视角项目，在此过程中，NHM管理层对博物馆工作人员的知识流失表示担忧。例如，在未来五年内，将有24名专业人员退休，代表775年的经验。虽然他们的出版物专注于推进他们专业领域的知识，但他们的记忆在科学史，博物馆实践，社会学，管理学，政治学，人类学，地理学和教育等学科中具有价值。金斯顿大学通过艺术与社会科学学院（FASS）及其合作伙伴健康与社会护理科学学院（FHSCS），拥有专业技能，通过捕捉这些信息的方式来满足这一迫切需求，从而最大限度地提高博物馆，公众和学术界的价值。KTF是转移这些技能的理想手段。金斯顿FASS和FHSCS与博物馆一起，提出了一个为期三年的KTF，以创建一个口述历史计划的基础上最好的现行做法，并根据博物馆的需要。它将利用两个学院的知识，以确保产出满足广泛的利益攸关方的需求。长期目标是将该计划纳入博物馆的工作，以便在这些方面保存知识成为常规。志愿口述历史学家也将接受培训，工作人员将在记录自己的记忆方面得到帮助，该项目将通过主题"证人纪念碑"来刺激恢复丢失的知识。核心项目将创建与博物馆工作人员的50个访谈主题相关的记录。这一数字反映了受试者的特殊经验、他们知识的价值和多媒体产出的质量。例如，将研究馆长的传记，并对他或她进行详细的摄像采访，生成可搜索的档案记录和文字记录。从这些材料中，将确定短片的主题，使其达到适合教育和展览使用的制作标准-通常与馆长特别了解的标本一起拍摄。这些纪录片将与博物馆数码资料库内的标本永久连结，并可与公开展览的标本一并使用。口述历史资料将以编辑后的形式上载于博物馆网页，供公众浏览，并可供博物馆的公开展览及学习活动使用。通过为迄今为止主要作为分类对象记录的人工制品增加新的人类和文化层面，这可能是吸引新受众的有力工具。这些材料将提供给从事与收藏有关的项目的学校和大学生，以及可以利用这些故事作为灵感的艺术家，电影制片人，广播公司，作家和诗人。《国家生活故事集》就是以这种方式被广泛"挖掘"出来的，而哥伦比亚口述历史办公室已经形成了1,000多本书的基础。