Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 405 g
Reihe: FRAKTAL
Ethics and Curatorial Concept at the Museum of Musical Instruments
Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 405 g
Reihe: FRAKTAL
ISBN: 978-3-99094-640-4
Verlag: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsv.
Time and again, the language of collecting and preservation is
cloaked in florid rhetoric whenever museums, their purposes and
their holdings are evoked – even though the museum world is
scarcely bound by legal definition. A closer look at the history and
evolution of any institution, not least our own, quickly dispels such
illusions. This volume contrasts the bourgeois collecting ideals of
prominent nineteenth- and early twentieth-century owners with
the Marxist-Leninist notion of collecting as practised in the GDR.
The research centre DIGITAL ORGANOLOGY at the Museum of Musical
Instruments, University of Leipzig, brings together an expanding
pool of closely interlinked research data across multiple collections.
These data provide a framework for tracing the histories of musical
instruments and the collections to which they belong. This infrastructure
is designed not only to support detailed, object-based
studies, but also to enable large-scale analysis through distant-reading
tools. The same applies to provenance research, which, with its
legal and ethical obligations, poses major challenges for university
museums – in organological scholarship, academic teaching, and
the wider transfer of knowledge to society.
