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Museum Curatorship

Museum Curatorship is the academic discipline and professional practice constituting the systematic acquisition, preservation, interpretation, and exhibition of cultural and historical artifacts within institutional settings, distinguished by its authoritative role in shaping public understanding through the critical selection and contextualization of material heritage.

428

Publications

32.8K

Citations

516

Authors

246

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

54

Variants

Curatorship

Parents

Publications

428

Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39

Susan Leigh Star, James R. Griesemer · Social Studies of Science · 1989 · 10.3K citations

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Memoirs of the Queensland museum.

Tanya Long Bennett · Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature · 1996 · 1.6K citations

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The Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

L. P. Gratacap · Science · 1900 · 1.4K citations

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Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display.

Brian Durrans, Ivan Karp, Steven D. Lavine · Man · 1992 · 1.3K citations

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The Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

L. P. Gratacap · Science · 1907 · 1.3K citations

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Authors

516

  1. SG
    Sally Gregory Kohlstedt

    University of Minnesota, United States

    5 publications · 89 citations

    5

    h-index

  2. FR
    Fiona R. Cameron

    Western Sydney University, Australia

    4 publications · 139 citations

    4

    h-index

  3. RH
    Richard Handler

    University of Virginia, United States

    4 publications · 169 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. JT
    Jennifer Trant

    University of Toronto, Canada

    3 publications · 183 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. DW
    Douglas Worts

    Jewish Home, United States

    3 publications · 54 citations

    3

    h-index

1–5 of 516

Institutions

246

  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    554 citations

  2. American Museum of Natural History

    New York, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    1.4K citations

  3. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    98 citations

  4. Western Sydney University

    Richmond, Australia

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    139 citations

  5. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    522 citations

  6. Natural History Museum

    London, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    81 citations

  7. Science Museum

    London, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    139 citations

  8. Trent University

    Peterborough, Canada

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    103 citations

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Venues

  1. Museum Management and Curatorship

    43 publications · 1.5K citations

    23

    h-index

  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 16 publications · 958 citations

    13

    h-index

  3. Science

    16 publications · 2.9K citations

    12

    h-index

  4. 12

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  5. Nature

    12 publications · 644 citations

    11

    h-index

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