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The Fitzwilliam Museum: A History de Lucilla Burn

The Fitzwilliam Museum: A History

Autor Lucilla Burn
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 ian 2016
This book has been commissioned by the Fitzwilliam Museum as part of the celebrations of the bicentenary, in 2016, of its foundation. It traces the story of the establishment and growth of the Museum from its origins in the 1816 bequest of Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, to the present day. By setting an individual museum's story into the larger context of the growth and development of museums and galleries in the UK and elsewhere, the book will appeal to all students of the history of collecting and display as well as to visitors to the museum.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781781300343
ISBN-10: 1781300348
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 112 colour
Dimensiuni: 197 x 248 x 28 mm
Greutate: 1.23 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Philip Wilson Publishers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Lucilla Burn is Acting Assistant Director (Collections) and Keeper of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, where she leads the five curatorial departments of the Museum while also looking after the collections of Greek and Roman, Egyptian and Near Eastern Antiquities. Before coming to Cambridge in 2001 she worked for many years as an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum. She is the author of several books.

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Lord Fitzwilliam and the founding collection. His life and family background (Ireland, Richmond, Cambridge, Paris) ; survey of his collections and how acquired. The general cultural background; ie the contemporary growth of a demand for and interest in the development of public galleries at the time; nb Dulwich 1811; the wider background in Europe (Louvre opened to public after revolution, other royal galleries in Europe also) - agitation for a National Gallery, anger at sale of Walpole (Houghton) collection etc . Chapter 2: The Museum before the Museum, 1816-1848. Cambridge in 1816. The display of the collection in the Perse School, joined by the Mesman collection in 1834. The purchase of land in Trumpington Street, the architectural competition, the building itself up to this point - Basevi then CR Cockerell. The idea of the university museum - but this could be in ch.1.Chapter 3: The Syndics' Museum, 1848-1876. What principles were adopted for the hang and then for the management? What did the Museum look like at this point? The original hang, the subsequent modifications. Staff; growth of the collections - via gifts and v occasional purchases - the accumulation of white elephants. The completion of the entrance hall. Early 'guides'. Visitors, visiting hours. The contemporary museum background - eg similar controversies re nudity at Nat. Gall.Chapter 4: The first Directors - Colvin, Middleton, Walston and James, 1876-1907. Who were they? What did they achieve? How did they change the FM or it change in their time? What were their aims? Growth of the collections, catalogues, public engagement, teaching, cultivation of bequests etc; the cast gallery. The fuller integration of the Museum into the university; the role of archaeology in achieving this. The staff and their activities.Chapter 5: 'Cockerellian... for good or ill' - Sydney Cockerell, 1908-1937. SC's policy of 'push', the expansion and transformation of the museum, its buildings, collections, the display; his uneasy relations with the university; new attitude to staff.Chapter 6: Louis Clarke and WWII 1937-45: LC himself; the effects of war - the evacuation of the collections, bargain-hunting in the London sales, the growth of the special exhibition, a more demanding public.Chapter 7: Carl Winter and the post-war revival 1946-1966: the growth of the collection again inc LC's huge bequest; CW's personality and abilities (acerbic wit, brilliant administrator); benefactors; predominantly still very male nature of the institution; the expansion and growing professionalism of the museum staff.Chapter 8: 1966-2016 onwards - focus on changes between 1816 and now and discuss aspects of what has been achieved and what we do? Our current stake-holders and how much has changed over 200 years? In-house conservation, the HKI, huge expansion of educational and outreach activities.