General readings:
Henning, Michelle, 2006. Museums, Media and Cultural Theory, Berkshire: Open UP, 183 s.
1 Historical perspectives on museums (1)
Abt, Jeffrey. 2007. “The Origins of the Public Museum.” In A Companion to Museum Studies, edited by Sharon Macdonald, 115–34. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 19 sider
Klonk, Charlotte: "Mounting Vision: Charles Eastlake and the National Gallery of London", The Art bulletin, Vol. 82, Nr. 2, 2000: 331-347. 16 s.
Bennett, Tony. 1988. “The Exhibitionary Complex.” New Formations, 4:73-102. 29 sider
Duncan, Carol: "Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship" i Ivan Karp og Steven D. Lavine: Exhibiting Cultures. The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1991. s. 88-103. 8s
Kriegel, Lara. 2006. “After the Exhibitionary Complex: Museum Histories and the Future of the Victorian Past.” Victorian Studies 48 (4): 681–704. 25 sider
2 Historical perspectives on museums (2)
Bolton, Lissant. 1997. “A Place Containing Many Places: Museums and the Use of Objects to Represent Place in Melanesia.” The Australian Journal of Anthropology 8 (2): 18–34. 16s. Pdf
Camarena C., and Morales, T. 2006. Community Museums and Global Connections: the Union of Community Museums of Oaxaca. In Museum frictions: public cultures/global transformations, ed. Ivan et al. Karp. Duke University Press. p.322-344. 22s
Chang, Wan-Chen, C. 2012. “A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Musealization: The Museum’s Reception by China and Japan in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.” Museum & Society 10(1):p.15-27. 12S
Fogelman, Arianna. 2008. “Colonial Legacy in African Museology: The Case of the Ghana National Museum.” Museum Anthropology 31 (1): 19–27. 18s
Classen, Constance og David Howes: "The Museum as Sensescape. Western Sensibilities and Indigenious Artefacts" i Elisabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden og Ruth Phillips (red): Sensible objects, Oxford: Berg. s. 1-16. 16 sider.
Kreps, Christina F. 2006. Non-Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural Perspective. In A companion to museum studies, ed. Sharon Macdonald, 457-472. 17s
3 Narratives in museums
Bal, Mieke. 1992. “Telling, Showing, Showing off.” Critical Inquiry 18 (3): 556–94. 38s
Grek, Sotiria; 2005. “Museums and Critical Discourse Analysis: Disentangling Exhibition Narratives” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory into Research. p.219-227. 8s
Karp, Ivan, and Corinne A Kratz. 2014. “Collecting, Exhibiting, and Interpreting: Museums as Mediators and Midwives of Meaning.” Museum Anthropology 37 (1): 51–65. 14s
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. 2015. “Inside the Museum: Curating between Hope and Despair: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.” East European Jewish Affairs 45 (2–3): 215–35. 20s
Krankenhagen, Stefan. 2011. “Exhibiting Europe The Development of European Narratives in Museums, Collections, and Exhibitions.” Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research 3 (3): 269–278. 9s
Shelton, Anthony Alan. 2006. “Museums and Anthropologies: Practices and Narratives.” A Companion to Museum Studies p.51-64. 13s
4 Exhibition and display techniques
Alberti, Samuel J.M.M.: Objects and Museum i: ISIS, 2005, 96: 559-571, 12 s.
Bal, Mieke: "Exhibition as film" i Sharon Macdonald and Paul Basu (eds): Exhibition experiences, 2008. s 71-79, 8s.
Beier-de Haan, Rosmarie, 2006. “Re-staging Histories and Identities” in Sharon Macdonald (ed.) A companion to museum studies, Wiley. Online (via Oria) p.186-197. 11S
Greenblatt, Stephen. 1991. “Resonance and Wonder.” Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 43 (4): 11–34. 21s
Henning, Michelle, 2006 “New media”, in Sharon Macdonald (ed.) A companion to museum studies, Wiley. Online (via Oria) p. 302-318. 16s
Moser, Stephanie. 2010. “THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL: Museum Displays and the Creation of Knowledge.” Museum Anthropology 33 (1): 22–32. 10s
Prior Nick, 2006. “Postmodern Restructurings”, in Sharon Macdonald (ed.) A companion to museum studies, Wiley. Online (via Oria) p.509-524. 13s
5 Art museums (+ excursion at the National Gallery)
Adamopoulou Areti & Esther Solomon. 2016. “Artists-as-Curators in Museums: Observations on Contemporary Wunderkammern.” THEMA. La Revue Des Musées de La Civilisation. p.35-49. 14s
Bal, Mieke. 2006. “Exposing the Public.” In A Companion to Museum Studies, Sharon Macdonald. Blackwell. (online via Oria) p.525-542 17s
James Cuno, “The Object of Art Museums,” in Cuno, ed., Whose Muse? Art Museums and the Public Trust (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), 49-75. 16s
Carol Duncan: " The Art Museum as Ritual " s. 473-486, 13 sider.
Corrin, Lisa. 1994. “Mining the Museum - Artists Look at Museums, Museums Look at Themselves.” In Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson. 22s
McClellan, Andrew. 2008. The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. Ch. 3 Collecting, classification and display, p.107-54. 47s
6 Cultural diversity + excursion IKM
Ang, Ien. 2005. “The Predicament of Diversity Multiculturalism in Practice at the Art Museum.” Ethnicities 5 (3): 305–20. 15s
Clifford, James. 1997. Museums as contact zones. In Clifford, Routes: travel and translation in the late twentieth century. Harvard University Press. p.188-219. 31s
Naguib, Saphinaz-Amal: Reconciling History and Memory at the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration in Paris., i Changes in museum practice : new media, refugees and participation / edited by Hanne-Lovise Skartveit and Katherine Goodnow, 2010. New York and Oxford. 13 s.
Lagerkvist, C. 2006. Empowerment and anger: Learning how to share ownership of the museum. Museum and society 4 (2): 52-68. 16s
Peers L. and Brown A. (eds) 2003. Museums and source communities. London: Routledge. Introduction, p.1-16. 16s
7 Folkemuseums (Bj?rn Sverre) + excursion Norskfolke museet
Amundsen, Arne Bugge 2011. "Men of Vision. Hans Aall, Moltke Moe and the Representations of the Emerging Nation-State at the Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo". Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore, 67, s. 37-56. 19p
Amundsen, Arne Bugge 2011. "National Museums in Norway". Link?ping Electronic Conference Proceedings (64), s. 653-666. 13 p www.ep.liu.se/ecp/064/027/ecp64027.pdf
Stoklund, Bjarne 1999. "How the Peasant House Became a National Symbol. A Chapter in the History of Museums and Nation-Building". Ethnologia Europaea, 29 (1), s. 5–18. 13p
Stoklund, Bjarne 2003. "Between Scenography and Science. Early Folk Museums and their Pioneers". Ethnologia Europaea, 33 (1), s. 21–36. 15p
Bolton, Lissant. 2008. Living and dying: ethnography, class and aesthetics in the British Museum. In Museums and difference, ed. Daniel J. Sherman. Indiana University Press. p.330-352. 12s
Clifford J. 1988. Histories of the tribal and the modern. In The Predicament of culture : Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Pp. 189-214. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 25s
Karp, Ivan, and Corinne A. Kratz. 2000. “Reflections on the Fate of Tippoo’s Tiger. Defining Cultures through Public Display.” In Cultural Encounters: Representing “Otherness”, edited by Elizabeth Hallam and Brian V Street. London: Routledge. p. 194-228. 36S
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara: "Objects of Ethnography" in Ivan Karp og Steven D.Lavine: Exhibiting Cultures. The Poetics and Politics of Museums Display, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press 1991: 386-444, 58 s.
8 Ethnographic museums + excursion KHM
Bolton, Lissant. 2008. Living and dying: ethnography, class and aesthetics in the British Museum. In Museums and difference, ed. Daniel J. Sherman. Indiana University Press. p.330-352. 12s
Clifford J. 1988. Histories of the tribal and the modern. In The Predicament of culture : Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Pp. 189-214. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 25s
Karp, Ivan, and Corinne A. Kratz. 2000. “Reflections on the Fate of Tippoo’s Tiger. Defining Cultures through Public Display.” In Cultural Encounters: Representing “Otherness”, edited by Elizabeth Hallam and Brian V Street. London: Routledge. p. 194-228. 36S
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara: "Objects of Ethnography" in Ivan Karp og Steven D.Lavine: Exhibiting Cultures. The Poetics and Politics of Museums Display, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press 1991: 386-444, 58 s.
9 Natural history museum (Elise Matilde Lund) + excursion
Required readings:
Liv Emma Thorsen. 2014. Elephants Are Not Picked from Trees: Animal Biographies in Gothenburg Natural History Museum. Aarhus University Press. 256 s. At UiO Via Oria, and online (only in January 2017)
Haraway, Donna: "Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936". Social Text , nr. 11, Winter 1984/85.
37 sider
Poliquin, R. 2008, ?The matter and meaning of museum taxidermy?, Museum and Society, (Juli) vol. 6 nr 2, s. 123-134.
12 sider
Take a look at her blog too
Browse through this book:
Yanna Carla, 2005. Nature's Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display
https://books.google.no/booksid=nT3hJxTKoeEC&printsec=frontcover&hl=no&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false also available at UiO library
Further optional readings (for those students who can read Norwegian)
Lund, Elise Matilde Vinduer til (situert) kunnskap : konstruksjon og fortolkning av en zoologisk utstilling, https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/24313 112 sider
Olsrud/Snekkenes (red.) Museologer p? museum. Kapittel 7. L?nte fj?r - Om naturhistoriske museumsgjenstander 149 Elise Matilde Lund. 17 sider