Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Introduction -- Owain Rhys, Community Participation and Engagement Manager, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales and Zelda Baveystock, Lecturer in Arts Management & Museum Studies, University of Manchester / 2. Strategies / A Question of Value: Issues in Contemporary Collecting Practice / Michael Terwey, Chair, Social History Curators group -- Developing Contemporary Collecting in Wales / John Marjoram, Coordinator Contemporary Collecting Wales -- Collecting the Current Now and Then: A Perspective on Acquiring Contemporary Artefacts in History Museums / Steven Miller, Seton Hall University MA Program in Museum Professions and previously Senior Curator of the Museum of the City of New York -- “A Picture of the Past and a Mirror of the Present”: Iorwerth Peat and the Origins of the Welsh Folk Museum / Elen Philips, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff -- 3. Approaches / 100 Years of Contemporary Collecting: Revisiting the Collection of Sailor Tattoos at the Maritime Museum, Stockholm / Mirja Arnshav, Research Coordinator, National Maritime Museums, Sweden -- Collecting the Home in Different Ways: SAMDOK’s Ethnographic Method Compared to Other Approaches / Harriet Purkis, University of Ulster and Past Chair, Social History Curators’ Group -- Exploring the Jungle: Contemporary Archaeology Gets a Little Bit Darker / Stuart Rathbone, Field Archaeologist, Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology / “Oi, Get Orf Moy Laand: Recent Departures in Contemporary Collecting and the English Countryside / Ollie Douglas, Museum of English Rural life, University of Reading -- Let’s Talk About Sexuality: Capturing, Collecting and Disseminating LGBTQ Oral His- and Her-stories / Sean Curran, Institute of Education, University of London

4. Challenges / Collecting Contemporary Consumer Technology / Suzanne Fischer, Oakland Museum of California and Steven Lubar, Brown University, Providence, RI -- The Memorial and the Museum: Strathewen’s Poetry Tree / Peg Fraser, Research Associate at Museum Victoria, Australia -- Collecting Challenging Contemporary Histories: Terrorist Attacks in London and New York City / Jennifer Kavanagh, Audience Engagement Manager, Science Museum, London -- 5. Futures / Transecting the Strand Union Workhouse: An Excursion into Social History Along Digital Geo-Located Paths / Juliet Sprake and Peter Rogers, Design Department, Goldsmiths, University of London -- Curating the Sensorial: Digital Mediation and Social Engagement with Place, Objects and Intangible Heritage in Australia / Francesca Veronesi, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia -- Save Our Placards! / Guy Atkins, writer and independent curator and Georgina Young, Museum of London -- 6. International Case Studies / Amsterdam Museum / Beamish, The Living Museum of the North / Birmingham Museums Trust / Bristol Museums & Art Galleries / Cardiff Story Museum / Chicago History Museum / Colchester & Ipswich Museums / Edinburgh City Museums / Gothenburg Stadsmuseum / Kentucky Historical Society / Museum of European Cultures / Museum of Liverpool / Norway's National Network for Contemporary Studies (Samtidsnett) / Te Papa Tongarewa

Collecting the Contemporary: A Handbook for Social History Museums is a major new publication which addresses one of the most fundamental issues facing today’s history museums: why and how to engage with contemporary collecting? -- CKB

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Description based on Publisher website on January 24, 2018