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| Authors: | Fredrik Svanberg: Research & development co-ordinator, National Historical Museums, Stockholm |
| Publication title: | Museum Narration and the Collection Machine: Or How Collections Make Collectors |
| Conference: | Comparing: National Museums, Territories, Nation-Building and Change. NaMu IV, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden 18–20 February 2008 |
| Publication type: | Abstract and Fulltext |
| Issue: | 030 |
| Article No.: | 013 |
| Abstract: | The article deals with the role played by collections and collection work in museums. It argues that collection needs to be seen as communicative and structuring in very important ways. Collecting is in fact thoroughly creative work, not primarily a question of managing and conserving which many people tend to think. |
| Language: | English |
| Year: | 2008 |
| No. of pages: | 8 |
| Pages: | 175-182 |
| Series: | Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings |
| ISSN (print): | 1650-3686 |
| ISSN (online): | 1650-3740 |
| File: | http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/030/013/ecp0830013.pdf |
| Available: | 2008-05-20 |
| Publisher: | Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet |
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