Museums as Cultures of Copies

"The variety of chapters from different times, places and disciplines adds something new, relevant and important to the ongoing discussion of the credibility of the museum as a modern institution within museum studies and the heritage field more broadly.[...] it achieves its objectives by extending understanding and appreciation of the culture of copies in museums while providing a rich resource that scholars and practitioners can use as a springboard for further research." -Gitte Westergaard, PhD candidate in the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages at the University of Stavanger

Brita Brenna is Professor of Museology and Head of Centre for Museum Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. Hans Dam Christensen is Professor of Cultural Communication at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Olav Hamran is Head of Research and Development, Arts Council Norway.

Museums as cultures of copies Introduction Brita Brenna, Hans Dam Christensen, Olav Hamran Section I: Models Section 1 Introduction Chapter 1 - The Art and Science of Replication. Copies and Copying in the Multi-Disciplinary Museum Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Alice Blackwell, Peter Davidson, Martin Goldberg and Geoffrey N. Swinney Chapter 2 - Knowing with models Brita Brenna Chapter 3 - Documenting, educating, recapturing copying practices at the Norwegian Technical Museum Olav Hamran Chapter 4 - Mostly making models: The Scientific Use of Natural Heritage Collections Henry McGhie Section II: Mobility and instability Section II Introduction Chapter 5 - Lost Continents, Projective Objects Mari Lending Chapter 6 - Turkish Neo-Ottoman memory culture and the problems of copying the past Gnl Bozolu and Christopher Whitehead Chapter 7 - Replica Knowledge: Travelling Thrones Felix Sattler & Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw Chapter 8 - Looking for originals in a museum of copies? The ambivalence of the Thorvaldsens Museum Hans Dam Christensen Chapter 9 - Copying as Museum Branding: Souvenirs with Edvard Munchs Bedspread Pattern Joanna Iranowska Section III: Body, Life and death Section III Introduction Chapter 10 - Ethnographic Mannequins: Copying as artefactualization of human difference Anne Folke Henningsen Chapter 11 - Constructing Museum Nature: Photography and Specimens in Natural History Museums around 1900 Liv Emma Thorsen Chapter 12 - Faces of death. Death masks in the museum Ole Marius Hylland Section IV: Text as/of thing Section IV Introduction Chapter 13 - Commonplaces, copies, and copiousness Anne Eriksen Chapter 14 - The proof of the original is in the copying: Heavenly chain letters Siv Frydis Berg Chapter 15 - Documenting museum objects: A practice of copying and a copious practice? Janne Werner Olsrud Chapter 16 - Breaking the frames? The creation of digital curatorial agency at Swedish cultural historical museums Bodil Axelsson Chapter 17 - Towards a Future Museum of Copying Marcus Boon