Okay, so I've started two blogs on two topics, but naturally (since they have the same author, at the same time) they're starting to bounce off one another. This blog is about museology, or the 'science' as it were of museums, and that's got to mean collecting stuff. The other blog Garage on Azure Street http://azuregarage.blogspot.com/ has as its point of origin a cluttered garage that is mostly filled with a collection of things that either no one uses, or uses only seasonally.
So, the garage museum is filled with lawnmowers, bicycles and lawn chairs, plus snow shovels, bags of road salt and ice chippers and, as I like to tell my husband, "five perfectly good pieces of drywall". I would call its style of collections management, 'eclectic'.
The other kind of museum, like the one in which I work, houses only objects of treasure. For some reason, these objects have been given a value outside of their inherent or literal composition, and they have been set aside, reserved, carefully moved, restored, displayed etc. That kind of museum has many associations, I think, with a temple or church.
But I think my garage could be considered a perfectly good museum, and I'm wondering about the differences in these collections of objects.
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