11678
Accession Number
27787
Title Of Article Chaper
Working Exhibits and the Destruction of Evidence in the Science Museum
Title Of Journal Book
The International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship
Volume
8
Pages
369-387
Collation
19 p. : ill.
Reference Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to try to explain why it is that so many curators of technical artefacts, particularly transport artefacts, suscribe to the ethic of the museum profession that their duty is to preserve evidence, yet devote much of their professional lives to the destruction of that evidence.
Keywords
exhibit;destruction;science
pub_id
11678