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A reframing of collections management in museums worldwide. Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice redefines collections management as a political, critical, and social project, contradicting its misperception as a set of fixed procedures and universal practices. Highlighting national museums and community-led heritage work worldwide, this book explores the complexities of numbering, digitization, and description alongside the realities of climate change, global pandemics, and natural disasters. The contributors draw on their local experiences to emphasize the varying practices, ethics, and workplace pragmatics defining this work.

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Cara Krmpotich is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, and former Director of the Museum Studies program. She teaches and researches in the areas of critical collections management, repatriation, material culture, and decolonial and Indigenous museology. She has worked in museums in Canada and the United Kingdom. Alice Stevenson is Professor of Museum Studies at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology. She has previously held posts as the Curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and as Researcher in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Her academic specialization is Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egyptian archaeology, but she has a written on a broad range of topics including the history of archaeology, anthropology and museums.

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