Heritage Collections not Museums

Museums on the Edge

Vol 12 no 1, 1992

Guest editor Louise Dauth. Aimed to redress the paucity of readily available material on the Australian and New Zealand experience of museums and galleries. Challenges attitudes to heritage, roles of museums, economic rationalism, gender, radical changed, indigenous material and repatriation, multiculturalism and technology. Reviews

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Author: Mr Daniel Thomas, feature

In 1975 the Whitlam Government's Committee of Inquiry on Museums and National Collections (the Piggott Committee, after its chairman P H Piggott) unsuccessfully recommended setting up of a Museum's Commission.

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Article Index

Articles in this issue

Book review: Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory
Book review: Independent Curators
Editorial: Museums on the Edge
Feature: A Continuum of Maori Art
Feature: A New Museum for Victoria
Feature: A Virtue of Necessity: Deaccessioning Without Guilt
Feature: Abel Tasman at Dunedin
Feature: Aboriginal People and Museums: Restricting Access to Increase It
Feature: Background to the Project: Heritage Curricula and Multiculturalism (HC&M)
Feature: Bad Names Improved
Feature: Charging to Disaster: The Introduction of Museum Entry Fees
Feature: Conservation: The State of the Art Conservation - Access, Equity and Future Directions
Feature: Cultural Diversity and the Challenges of Access
Feature: Designing for Interesting People
Feature: European Museums Make an Exhibition of Themselves
Feature: Exhibiting Conflict - Who Dares?
Feature: Exhibiting the Museum
Feature: From Curiosities to the Hyper-Real: Notes on Context in Museum Anthropology Exhibitions
Feature: Here We Go Again
Feature: Heritage Collections not Museums
Feature: If you Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It!
Feature: Implementing Aboriginal and Multicultural Policy in the Museum Sector
Feature: Local Conditions: New Zealand Art
Feature: Museums and Technology: A Recession Boom?
Feature: Museums Listings
Feature: Repatriation of Papua New Guinea's Cultural Heritage
Feature: Some Thoughts on Museum Futures
Feature: Sources of Synergy: Museums for Design
Feature: Te Papa Tongarewa: Museum of New Zealand
Feature: The Ownership of Cultural Meaning: Local Museums and Access
Feature: To Have and To Hold: Art Museum Departments
Feature: Towards the Light: The story of One New Age Gallery's Quest for Purpose and Relevance in a Changing World
Feature: Urban Regions and the City Centre: A Changing Cultural Relationship
Feature: Victoria Moves Towards Museum Accreditation
Feature: Whams and Whimms: An Exercise in Classification and Meaning
Review: A Dialogue with Richard Grayson
Review: Arthouse and Beyond
Review: CAMA Conference: An Overview
Review: Ordinary Otherness
Review: Spirit of Enquiry Refreshing
Review: Testing the Meaning of Heritage