From Curiosities to the Hyper-Real: Notes on Context in Museum Anthropology Exhibitions

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Between worlds: Belinda Mason and Blur Projects
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Daniel Thomas provoked a distinct murmur at the 1990 CAMA Conference when he suggested that art museums have a greater capacity to disturb and move people than other cultural museums. If this is true and I think it is.....

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Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory
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Naomi Cass

Book review Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory published by the Art Museums Association of Australia Inc and the National Centre for Australian Studies Monash University 1991.

Published March 1992
Museums Listings
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Selected list of museums and art galleries around Australia.

Published March 1992
Local Conditions: New Zealand Art
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Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art. Exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney from 31st March 1992. Article by the co-curator Robert Leonard.

Published March 1992
To Have and To Hold: Art Museum Departments
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Alison Carroll

One of the things which continues to fascinate me about museums is how, despite the vast amount of talk about displaying material culture, the often personal, often idiosyncratic, often haphazard decisions about departments are very rarely mentioned. Yet these decisions are central to much of the museum's collection, display, exhibitions and research programme.

Published March 1992
Aboriginal People and Museums: Restricting Access to Increase It
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Christopher Anderson

The South Australian Museum has the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Australian Aboriginal material culture. It also has a vast archive of information about that material and about other aspects of Aboriginal life in the form of photographs, films, audio tapes, diaries and other records.

Published March 1992
Sources of Synergy: Museums for Design
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Andrew Montana

The Zandra Rhodes costume in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum holds unique significance within the design collection.

Published March 1992
Here We Go Again
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Donald Brook

Life in Cyrus with all its charms and challenges.

Published March 1992
Cultural Diversity and the Challenges of Access
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Claudine Brown

Cultural diversity has become a key issue in the 1990s for a number of reasons. In the United States we have recently completed a census. The results of that census indicate a dramatic change in the nation's demographics.

Published March 1992
Charging to Disaster: The Introduction of Museum Entry Fees
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Patrick Filmer-Sankey

Museums are complex social phenomena and valuable resources. There's an ecological analogy there; if you mess with even apparently trivial elements of a complex system, the results can be unpredictable, powerful and are most often catastrophic.

Published March 1992
Urban Regions and the City Centre: A Changing Cultural Relationship
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One of the curious things about very large cities is the gulf that exists between the inner city and the outer suburbs or hinterland.

Published March 1992
Ordinary Otherness
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28 February - 19 April 1992

Published March 1992
European Museums Make an Exhibition of Themselves
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