Museums, Objects, and Collections

Pearce, S. M. (1992). Museums, Objects, and Collections: A Cultural Study. Smithsonian Institution Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1992

Link

https://archive.org/details/museumsobjectsco0000pearmatched

Cited from

history_historiography

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

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Primes

• Provenance
  • Provenance is more specific: it names the actual history of the item, not just its class, as Pearce (1992) develops in her museological account of object biography.

    This sourceFoundational museological text developing object biography and the distinction between categorical class-membership ("museum-quality") and the specific documented history of an individual artifact.

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