Steamships to Suffragettes
A Case Study of Interpretative Museology, Public Engagement, and Digital Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16898541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicolas Bigourdan (corresponding author), K L Edwards (0000-0001-7619-9114), Kevin Edwards, Michael Mccarthy (0000-0003-3484-8360) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 138-154 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museum Worlds (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-6729 • E-ISSN: 2049-6737 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/armw.2016.040111 |
| OpenAlex | W2565698538 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
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
Art · Art history · Exhibition · Library science · Malay · Outreach · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Australian History and Society · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
Routes
Re-Imagining the Museum
Documentary sources for the archaeological diver Ship plans at the National Maritime Museum
Screw Threads on the SS Xantho Engine
The political rationality of the museum
The birth of the museum
Indigenous perceptions of contact at Inthanoona, Northwest Western Australia
Social Inclusion, the Museum and the Dynamics of Sectoral Change
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |