{"product_id":"inside-the-lost-museum-curating-past-and-present-9780674971042","title":"Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eCurators 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 consider visitors' interactions with objects and with one another, how our bodies move through displays, how our eyes grasp objects, how we learn and how we feel. \u003ci\u003eInside the Lost Museum \u003c\/i\u003edocuments the work museums do and suggests ways these institutions can enrich the educational and aesthetic experience of their visitors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWoven throughout \u003ci\u003eInside the Lost Museum \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 recent 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMuseum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every collection and exhibition. Lubar explains work behind the scenes--collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building--through historical and contemporary examples. \u003ci\u003eInside the Lost Museum \u003c\/i\u003espeaks to the hunt, the find, and the reveal that make curating and visiting exhibitions and using collections such a rewarding and vital pursuit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLubar, Steven:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Steven Lubar, a former museum curator and director, is Professor of American Studies at Brown University.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412788842770,"sku":"9780674971042","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3dc508e7-e41e-43c0-a84f-034b67979de0.jpg?v=1729328166","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/inside-the-lost-museum-curating-past-and-present-9780674971042","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}