Steamships to Suffragettes
| Autor: | Michael McCarthy, Kevin Edwards, Nicolas Bigourdan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060101 anthropology
Museology 06 humanities and the arts 02 engineering and technology Conservation Visual arts Geography 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing 0601 history and archaeology Public engagement Maritime archaeology Humanities |
| Zdroj: | Museum Worlds. 4:138-154 |
| ISSN: | 2049-6737 |
| Popis: | Since 1985 the shipwreck site and related artifacts from the steamship SS Xantho (1872) have been key elements in the Western Australian Museum Maritime Archaeology Department’s research, exhibition, and outreach programs. This article describes a continually evolving, often intuitive, synergy between archaeological fieldwork and analyses, as well as museum interpretations and public engagement that have characterized the Steamships to Suffragettes exhibit conducted as part of a museum in vivo situation. This project has centered on themes locating the SS Xantho within a network of temporal, social, and biographical linkages, including associations between the ship’s engine and a visionary engineer (John Penn), a controversial entrepreneur (Charles Broadhurst), a feminist (Eliza Broadhurst), and a suffragette (Kitty Broadhust), as well as to Aboriginal and “Malay” divers and artists. Achieved with few funds, the project may be a valuable case study at a time when funds allocated to museums and archaeological units are rapidly diminishing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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