Towards an Historical Geography of a National Museum: The Industrial Museum of Scotland, the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art and the Royal Scottish Museum, 1854-1939. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. G. N. Swinney NMS Repository Research publications by staff of the National Museums Scotland http://repository.nms.ac.uk/990
Chapters 1. Introduction: situating the thesis 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Spaces and places: tangible and intangible objects 1.3. Why study museums; why study the Museum? 1.4. From where to study the museum? 1.5. Scope of the thesis and the location of sources 1.6. Constructing an archive of the Museum 1.7. The structure of the thesis 2. The spaces of science: a theoretical context for an historical geography of a museum 2.1. Introduction 2.2. The museum s compass: historicizing museums 2.3. Contextualising the museum: museology 2.4. Contextualising the museum: perspectives from the history and philosophy of science 2.5. Conclusion 3. The Museum as place: the materiality of site 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Prologue to an epitome of the world : genealogies of collections in Edinburgh 3.3. Town, gown and museum 3.4. Temporary spaces of collecting: The Temporary Museum 1854-1866 3.5. Built space: the Fowke-Matheson building 1866-circa 1889 3.6. Location and status 3.7. Repositioning the Museum for a new century 3.8. Conclusion
4. Staffing: people, authority and sites 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Establishment matters: where were recruitments made? 4.3. Constables, Watchers, and Patrols 4.4. Cleaners, Attendants and Preparers 4.5. Places of work: workers and workshops 4.6. Occasional staff and volunteers 4.7. Directors and the competitive posts: Assistants, Keepers, Curators 4.8. Extramural sites and the creation of reputational geographies 4.9. Conclusion 5. Collecting: practices of accumulation and discard 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Processes and sites of collecting: register as noun and verb 5.3. Collecting streams, disciplines, and departments 5.4. Gravity of collection 5.5. The South Kensington effect 5.6. Temporary collecting: borrowing and practices of keeping-while-giving 5.7. Geographical turns in collecting: where did collections come from? 5.8. Sites of production of museum objects 5.9. Practices of discard 5.10. Conclusion 6. Displaying: sites of public engagement 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Changing concepts of the role and form of display: what to display 6.3. The building as display 6.4. Philosophies on display 6.5. Constraints on display: the pragmatics of space 6.6. Different publics and different displays 6.7. Constructing psychological space: displaying beyond the material Museum
6.8. Conclusion 7. Educating: sites of speaking for objects 7.1. Introduction 7.2. Speaking for objects: sites of speaking at visitors 7.3. Bringing the Museum into view: imaginative geographies of a teaching museum 7.4. Audiences, space and pedagogy 7.5. Oration, space, and pedagogical technologies 7.6. Conclusion 8. Visiting: geographies and moments of encounter 8.1. Introduction 8.2. Fragments for constructing a geography of visiting 8.3. Quantifying visits: constructing publics 8.4. Distinguishing visits: rituals of privileged entry 8.5. Visitor accounts of their visits and experience 8.6. Appropriation of space: the Museum as sites of protest and assignation 8.7. Visiting by invitation: the Museum as a place of civic entertainment 8.8. Conclusion 9. Conclusions: towards an historical geography of the Museum 9.1. Introduction 9.2. The Museums as a site of science making 9.3. The administrative geographies of the Museum: the nature of national 9.4. Materialising an historical geography 9.5. The sites of the work of science and the demonstration of science 9.6. The place of the discipline of geography in the Museum
9.7. Towards an historical geography of museums End-piece Bibliography Manuscript Sources Published Sources Appendices I. A nomenclatorial history of the Museum II. The Museum library and the Patent Library III. Annual Reports of the Museum IV. Content of photographs as temporal landmarks