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||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Pearce makes a philosophical explication of how material functions within ...|By Anonymous|Pearce makes a philosophical explication of how material functions within museum collections. The author defends museums as collection – that is, object centered – institutions, and argues that museums should be concerned with the creating and facilitating special experiences| |“Dense and rewarding. Through this study the author intends to explore the philosophies and cultural traditions which underlie museums, their collections, and the objects which make them up, and to see how meaning is created amongst them.”—

This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological and social reasons that people collect and identifies three modes of collecting: collecting as souvenirs, as fetishes, and as systematic assemblages. She considers how museum professionals set policies of collection management; acquire, study, and exhibit objects; and make meaning of the objects in their care. Pearce also explo...

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