Geoffrey N Swinney

Biographic Data

ID3080850
NAMEGeoffrey N Swinney
GIVEN NAMESGeoffrey N
FAMILY NAMESwinney
SIGNATURESWINNEY G N
AFFILIATIONSNational Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • Appropriate and Appropriated Sites for Elephants

    Geoffrey N SwinneyARTICLESociety and Animals2019References: 7

    Through a case study of the museum career of a mounted specimen of African elephant, the nature of “museum objects” and sites in which they engage in the construction of meaning are examined. The paper tracks a series of representations through a museum and explores how this representative of the species was appropriated, rematerialized, represented and re-presented in a variety of media to convey new meanings. It analyzes the processes of transl…

  • Recycled objects

    Geoffrey N SwinneyARTICLEMuseum Management and Curatorship2017References: 21

    Through a case study approach those acts of assembling, juxtaposing and exhibiting collections of objects, which constitute the western museum, are analysed as artistic processes which produce the museum as a form of ‘public art’. The paper takes as its fulcrum L’Ange, a contemporary artwork formed from recycled materials by the Fon artist Gérard Quenum. It examines how this contemporary work is deployed in National Museums Scotland to recycle hi…

  • George Wilson's Map of Technology

    Open AccessGeoffrey N SwinneyARTICLEJournal of Scottish Historical…2016Cited by: 1References: 2

    An intriguing symbol adorns the grave, in Edinburgh's Old Calton Burial Ground, of George Wilson (1818–1859), Britain's first Professor of Technology. Wilson himself had devised the symbol as an emblem for the Industrial Museum of Scotland of which he was Director. In his professorial role he defined and delineated the ‘territorial features’ and ‘intellectual architecture’ of the novel academic discipline of technology. As the founding-Director o…

  • Reconstructed visions

    Geoffrey N SwinneyARTICLEMuseum Management and Curatorship2006Cited by: 2References: 9

    The shifting location of one institution within a knowledge-space that is itself dynamic is examined through a brief case-study of one of the constituent museums which, in 1985, became a part of the then newly established National Museums of Scotland. Through examination of the declared intentions of successive directors over the 151 year history of the institution successively known as the Industrial Museum of Scotland, the Edinburgh Museum of S…

  • The evil of vitiating and heating the air

    Geoffrey N SwinneyARTICLEJournal of the History of…2003

    Journal Article The evil of vitiating and heating the air: Artificial lighting and public access to the National Gallery, London, with particular reference to the Turner and Vernon collections Get access Geoffrey N. Swinney Geoffrey N. Swinney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 15, Issue 1, May 2003, Pages 83–112, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/15.1.83 Published: 01 …

  • One of a bye-gone time

    Geoffrey N Swinney, A WheelerARTICLEJournal of the History of…2000

    Richard Parnell established himself as an authority on both fishes and grasses. Although he published only on British species, he collected more widely and had plans for a work on exotic material. However, in 1845 he seems abruptly to have abandoned publishing the results of his scientific collecting, although he continued to collect. His collections of British and exotic fishes are in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh and The Natural H…

  • A natural history collection in transition

    Geoffrey N SwinneyARTICLEJournal of the History of…1999

    A natural history collection in transition: Wyville Thomson and the relationship between the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art Get access Geoffrey N. Swinney Geoffrey N. Swinney Geoffrey N. Swinney, National Museums of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EHI IJF (e-mail g swinney@nms ac uk) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 11, …

  • Gas Lighting in British Museums and Galleries, with Particular Reference to the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art

    Geoffrey N SwinneyARTICLEMuseum Management and Curatorship1999Cited by: 3References: 2

  • Who Runs the Museum? Curatorial Conflict in a National Collection

    Geoffrey N SwinneyARTICLEMuseum Management and Curatorship1998Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Excavations at Pierowall Quarry, Westray, Orkney

    N Sharples, Niall M Sharples et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1985Cited by: 9

    Complex multi-period site. Spiral-decorated stones, large circular chambered tomb of mid-3rd millennium, demolished for small structure (Grooved Ware) then abandoned until large Iron Age round house built over cairn. Critical examination of many recent Orkney publications in the light of this evidence, and some new approaches suggested. 14C dates and environmental evidence