Collections at Risk
New Challenges in a New Environment
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Lockwood Press
Published:23rd Jun '17
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Conflicts and wars, and more specifically the 2011 Revolution in Egypt, have brought to light the worrying question of the preservation of the cultural heritage in the world. The roles of museums and international institutions have become ever more important in this respect.
Recognizing that cultural treasures can form the basis for education and economic prosperity, the organizers devoted the 29th Annual Meeting of ICOM's International Committee for Egyptology (CIPEG) to the theme of Collections at Risk: New Challenges in a New Environment.
The present volume contains several of the papers read during those sessions in Brussels in 2012, and gives a clear example of the multifarious paths that lie open to obtaining the objective of preserving the past for the future.
... this volume gathers a number of little-known stories behind the formation, interpretation and display of collections of Egyptian artefacts. [...] This volume thus fits well within and increasing consciousness of the random routes by which collections appear - asking us to reconsider constructions of 'ancient Egypt' based on such idiosyncratic material'
-- Campbell Price * Ancient Egypt, February/March 2018, Volume 18, NoISBN: 9781937040604
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 485g
360 pages