objects in museums of science and technology Boon, Tim editor http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Haines, Elizabeth (Elizabeth V.) editor http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Dubois, Arnaud editor http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Staubermann, K. B. (Klaus B.) editor http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt text bibliography dcu 2024 monographic eng

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v, 242 pages : illustrations (some color) 26 cm. "This volume proposes a way of thinking, and of developing practice, around three varieties of the use of science and technology museum objects: first, the ways that machines, instruments and equipment were used in their pre-museum 'lives' (which use provides the most frequent reason for their acquisition); second, the ways in which museum staff employ objects in their 'museum lives', when they are members of collections. Thirdly there is also the possibility of reconceptualizing museum visitors as users of collections and displays, in which guise visitors would also have something in common with the objects' original users and also with the curators of the middle category. We suggest that thinking of museum objects in these ways, in terms of use, could constitute a coherent approach to doing museum work that would enrich the wider project of science and technology museums"-- Provided by publisher. How does that work? : the audio-visual documentation of craft practice by the Competence Centre for Crafts and Technology in the LWL Open-Air Museum Hagen and the context of its use / Lisa Maubach. edited by Tim Boon, Elizabeth Haines, Arnaud Dubois, and Klaus Staubermann ; managing editor, Kristin Frederick-Frost, Smithsonian Institution. Includes bibliographical references and index. Industrial museums Science museums Technology History Sources Science History Sources Tools Collection and preservation Museum exhibits T179 .U53 2024 069.51 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2024 1 online resource (DLC) 2023045735 9781944466732 2023045734 DLC 240311 20250902112519.0 23602276 eng