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Author
Brazier, Jan
Title
Archives, Objects, Museums: Points of Intersection
In
Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992
Editors
Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton
Imprint
Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1995, pp. 93-100
Url
https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/brazier.htm
Subject
History of Australian Science - General
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Archives and Objects: when I considered their relationship, my first reaction was that objects are generally consigned by archivists to the 'too-hard' or 'not-enough-time' basket - along with ephemera. My second reaction was to think of an object's documentation only as the papers which came with it, and as an archivist working in a natural history museum, I don't receive a lot of that.

The more I thought, however, about archives and objects, about all the 'things' in a museum, the more I came to think about the web of interconnections between objects and the institution's documentation, quite apart from any paperwork that they bring with them. So I am going to consider briefly what archival theory has to say, and then, more extensively, how 'archives' relates to 'objects' in the context of a science museum.

As do most archives, the Archives of the Australian Museum holds records in many physical formats: traditional paper documents, photographs, drawings, maps, plans, audio-visual material, ephemera; and objects.

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Carlson 1996

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  • Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 edited by Sherratt, Tim; Jooste, Lisa; Clayton, Rosanne (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), 124 pp, https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/contents.htm. Details

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