Abstract
The 12 chapters of this book are adapted from papers presented at the international conference From Malacca to Manchester: Curating Islamic Collections Worldwide, which took place in February 2017, in Manchester, UK. The conference was part of a broader programme aiming to improve staff understanding of Manchester’s Islamic collections, as well as of the religion of Islam, Islamic art and culture and Muslim communities locally. The aims of this publication engage with current trends and challenges in the culture and heritage landscape globally.
The book is divided into three parts: Part I presents two theoretical discussions of museological and curatorial practice; in Part II, curators offer case studies of new and/or re-installed exhibitions of Islamic art; Part III discusses museum education, and how partnerships with audiences can constructively contribute to exhibition conceptualisation and development.
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The full programme can still be viewed, as of September 2019, here: www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/events/malaccatomanchester/.
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See the John Ellerman Foundation website, https://ellerman.org.uk/.
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The John Rylands Library of the University of Manchester is not part of the Partnership, so its important collection of around 2000 Islamic manuscripts did not fall under the purview of this project.
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These activities were organised and carried out by the present author, whose post was funded as part of the Ellerman Project.
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The survey conducted in 2014 by the present author on behalf of the UK’s ACE-funded Subject Specialist Network for Islamic Art and Material Culture (SSN) is a case in point, highlighting numerous small collections whose curators were unable to access or activate the latent interest of their objects due, typically, to a lack of specialist knowledge and resources. The SSN has subsequently funded several cataloguing, educational and engagement projects helping regional museums to fully exploit the potential of these collections; see http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/iamcssn/index.php/en/.
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Layers of Islamic Art and the Museum Context, which took place at the Museum for Islamic Art, Berlin, 13–16 January 2010, sponsored by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the Staatliche Museen Berlin/Museum für Islamische Kunst and Forum Transregionale Studien, among other institutions.
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See Sam Bowker, ‘Not Malacca but Marege: Islamic Art in Australia’, Chap. 4 in this volume.
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Norton-Wright, J. (2020). Introduction. In: Norton-Wright, J. (eds) Curating Islamic Art Worldwide. Heritage Studies in the Muslim World. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28880-8_1
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