TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boon,Tim
AU  - Haines,Elizabeth
AU  - Dubois,Arnaud
AU  - Staubermann,K.B.
TI  - Understanding use: objects in museums of science and technology 
T2  - Artefacts : studies in the history of science and technology
SN  - 9781944466732
AV  - T179 .U53 2024
U1  - 069.51 23/eng/20240312
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Smithsonian Scholarly Press
KW  - Industrial museums
KW  - Science museums
KW  - Technology
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
KW  - Science
KW  - Tools
KW  - Collection and preservation
KW  - Museum exhibits
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -