Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- The Day St Boiler: Interpretation of an Industrial Relic
- In
- Third National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1986: Practices and Responsibilities of Engineering Heritage; Preprints of Papers
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 1986, pp. 52-55
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0858253143
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.680400985677596
- Abstract
The collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences comprises over a million individual objects and its acquisition policy results in this number being constantly increased. Like other major museums it is thus faced with invidious decisions as to which of these objects should be displayed and interpreted for the public. This paper examines one such decision and concludes that of the many very subjective criteria which can be used to asses an artefact's importance or significance, a link, however tenuous, to a major historical event or process can and should prevail.
Related Published resources
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- Third National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1986: Practices and Responsibilities of Engineering Heritage; Preprints of Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1986), 75 pp. https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0858253143. Details