{"id":268,"date":"2017-03-22T17:12:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universalhistories.org\/?p=268"},"modified":"2018-06-07T10:47:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T10:47:09","slug":"introducing-the-case-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/2017\/03\/22\/introducing-the-case-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the case studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post by Chiara Zuanni, postdoctoral researcher at the V&A.<\/em><\/p>\n

After Sandra\u2019s post introducing the Universal Histories and Universal Museums research project<\/a>, it is now my turn to introduce the case studies. Indeed, my role as postdoctoral researcher on the project focuses on the archival research for these case studies, working alongside Sandra\u2019s in London and Andr\u00e9 in Paris.<\/p>\n

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Room 2 of the Loan Collection, South Kensington Museum, London, 1876. \u00a9 Science Museum\/Science & Society Picture Library<\/p><\/div>\n

The Universal Histories and Universal Museum research has three case studies: two in London and one in Paris. In London, we are examining the growth of the collections in the South Kensington Museum, and how the temporary Loan Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus in 1876 marked the growth of the science collection and highlighted the development of scientific disciplines, each one with its own objects and series of talks and public lectures. This collection contributed to the South Kensington Museum\u2019s collections in separating its science and art branches and leading to the emergence of two different institutions: the V&A and the Science Museum. The Committee of Rearrangement of 1908 is of particular interest here in assessing how objects were re-categorised, and as part of this we are looking at the history of the South Asian Collections.<\/p>\n

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The Palais du Trocad\u00e9ro in Paris, 1890s (source: US Library of Congress <\/a>).<\/p><\/div>\n

In Paris, we are looking at the history of the Americas collection in the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Ethnographie du Trocad\u00e9ro. This case study allows us to investigate the emergence of ethnology as a discipline, and the impact of the growth of this discipline on Parisian museum collections. Anthropology, ethnology and archaeology were all present at the 1878 International Exhibition, though with different emphases and with little debate on their values and validity. This case study therefore also allows us to track the emergence and definition of these disciplines, and we aim to do so by looking at the objects that transited through the Trocad\u00e9ro, before, during and after the Exhibition until its official foundation as Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Ethnographie (1882).<\/p>\n

Overall, the three case studies draw upon very different collections \u2013 science and art, South Asia, and Americas \u2013 all focusing on the second part of the 19th<\/sup> century and the early 20th<\/sup>. By observing how diverse objects were collected, displayed and presented to diverse audiences in public events and through the media, and ultimately how they were preserved in different institutions, we aim to highlight the growing boundaries between disciplines and the role museums and their objects had in reflecting on, and informing, these same boundaries.<\/p>\n

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Mus\u00e9e du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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