Standards for touring exhibitions / Museums & Galleries Commission.

  • Great Britain. Museums and Galleries Commission
Date:
1995
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Standards for touring exhibitions / Museums & Galleries Commission. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4.16 4.17 4.18 18 or have not been published. Where possible, research visits should take photographs for reference and record purposes and the condition of potential loans and the likely cost of collecting and returning the exhibit should be assessed. Research will ensure that the content of graphics and written or spoken text is factually correct, but any text should be given to an experienced copy writer in order to communicate the expert’s knowledge and enthusiasm to the target audience [11]. Through a loan to an exhibition, a lender may be given new insights which may be outside its knowledge or specialism but which may enlarge the totality of knowledge about the exhibit [24]. Museums normally maintain a body of current research on each item in their collections, and details of the exhibition, and any publications which included the object, should be added to the object’s history file [6]. One of the functions of museum publishing is to share information between public collections, enlarging knowledge about objects through new research or different perspectives. A published catalogue is often the only permanent record of a temporary exhibition, so it has immense value to scholarship as a transmitter of research. In addition, publications make this information available to a wider public because they have a life after the exhibition itself and have a wider distribution than the tour [21]. These standards and guidelines should be read in conjunction with those in the Museums & Galleries Commission’s series Standards in the Museum Care of Collections. Sources of advice and help ° Fenton, A., ‘Collectionsresearch: local, national and international perspectives’ and subsequent essays in Thompson, J. M. A., (ed), Manual of Curatorship, 1992 (2nd edition), Butterworth- Heinemann/Museums Association, Oxford. ° Touring Exhibitions Group, Manual of Touring Exhibitions, (forthcoming), Butterworth- Heinemann, Oxford. ° Help may be available from the staff at the relevant national museums and from the appropriate specialist group.
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