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Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present

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Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our senses and orchestrate our impressions, balancing presentation and preservation, information and emotion. Curators imagine visitors’ interactions with objects and with one every other, how our bodies move through displays, how our eyes clutch objects, how we learn and how we feel. Inside the Lost Museum documents the work museums do and suggests ways these institutions can enrich the educational and aesthetic experience of their visitors.

Woven all the way through Inside the Lost Museum is the story of the Jenks Museum at Brown University, a nineteenth-century display of natural history, anthropology, and curiosities that disappeared a century ago. The Jenks Museum’s past, and a latest effort by artist Mark Dion, Steven Lubar, and their students to reimagine it as art and history, serve as a framework for exploring the long record of museums’ usefulness and service.

Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through each and every collection and exhibition. Lubar explains work at the back of the scenes―collecting, preserving, displaying, and the use of art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building―through historical and recent examples. Inside the Lost Museum speaks to the hunt, the find, and the reveal that make curating and visiting exhibitions and the use of collections this type of rewarding and vital pursuit.

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