Author

Contributions

  • Sheehy, Colleen J. 1953- - Contributor
  • Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. - Contributor

Publication

2006 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Language

English

Word Count

26,750 words, Guess

Page Count

107 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCN6537.D54 A4 2006

Alternate Titles

  • Mark Dion and the university as installation

Description

"Mark Dion, working in collaboration with students, curators, and museum staff, created the installation Cabinet of Curiosities at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota. This exhibition, which featured more than seven hundred objects from university collections such as the Veterinary Anatomy Museum, Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies, and the Goldstein Museum of Design, represented the university in miniature, just as the cabinet of wonder of the Renaissance attempted to depict microcosms of the world. From a freeze-dried cow lung to Paul Bunyan's ring to a bowler hat owned by Hubert H. Humphrey to a meteorite - and so much more - Cabinet of Curiosities reveals how the phenomenon of collecting has influenced the acquisition and creation of knowledge within universities and Western Society."--BOOK JACKET

Subjects

Topics

ExhibitionsArt, exhibitionsMuseum techniquesInstallations (art)Cabinets of curiositiesUniversity of MinnesotaMuseum techniques -- Exhibitions

Genres

  • Exhibitions.

Other Editions

  • Cabinet of curiosities: Mark Dion and the university as installationUniversity of Minnesota Press2006-01-01

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