A Short Introductory Reading List
Atlas Obscura. Meet the Woman Behind LA’s African American Miniature Museum. 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBzSkhiA8is
Barron, James. “This Tiny Museum Fits Inside an Elevator Shaft.” New York Times, April 21, 2019.
Bodinger de Uriarte, John. “At Large in the Empire of Things: The Museum of Sundry Objects.” Museum and Society. 18.2:
https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/3147
Candlin, Fiona. Micromuseology: An Analysis of Small Independent Museums. London: Bloombury Publishing, 2015.
Candlin, Fiona and James Larkin. “What is a Museum? Difference All the Way Down.” Museum and Society. 18.2: https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/3147
CBC Short Documentaries. The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum. 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGT8XLrYnio
Cornish, Helen. “’The Life of the Death of “’The Fighting Fairy Woman of Bodmin:’ Storytelling around the Museum of Witchcraft.” Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 22.1 (2013), pp. 79-97.
Dolan, Clare. ‘First Manifesto of The Museum of Everyday Life’, The Museum of Everyday Life Philosophy Department, Vermont, 2010.
Gordon, Tammy S. Private History in Public: Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life. Lanham: Alta Mira Press, 2010.
Greene, A. Kendra. Anatomy of a Museum, or, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Icelandic Phallological Museum, But Were Afraid to Ask. Boston: Anomolous Press, 2014.
Gregory, Helen and Kirsty Robertson. “No Small Matter: Micromuseums as Critical Institutions.” RACAR 43 (2018), pp. 89-101.
Jacobson, Molly McBride. “The Ultimate List of Wonderfully Specific Museums.” Atlas Obscura. 2017.
Levine, Gabriel. “The Museum of Everyday Life: Vernacular Objects and (Extra)ordinary Affects.” Journal of Curatorial Studies 4.3 (2015), pp. 364-89.
McTavish, Lianne. “The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum: A Model Institution.” Museums and the Part: Constructing Historical Consciousness. Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingston, eds. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2016, pp. 60-77.
Pamuk, Orhan. “Small Museums.” New York Times Magazine (March 20, 2014): http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/small-museums/?_r=1
Mikula, Maja. “Vernacular Museum: Communal Bonding and Ritual Memory Transfer Among Displaced Communities.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 21.8 (2015), pp. 757-72.
Patt, Lise. “Horns, Bats, Ideas: Encountering the Fetish at the Museum of Jurassic Technology.” Museum Anthropology 20.2 (1997), pp. 67-73.
Rashad, Emami. “The African American Selfie Museum and the Phenomenon of Culture Based Museums For Us, By Us.” Forward Times (Houston), July 16, 2019: http://forwardtimes.com/the-african-american-selfie-museum-and-the-phenomenon-of-culture-based-museums-for-us-by-us/
Smith, Adam. “Woman Turns Home into Museum After Getting Sick of Black Women Being Ignored by the Art World.” Metro, July 2017: http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/18/woman-turns-home-into-museum-after-getting-sick-of-black-women-being-ignored-by-the-art-world-6777243/
Wallace, Hannah. Micromuseology in Practice: A Collective Assessment of Philadelphia’s African American Museums. MA Thesis, Department of Museum Studies, University of the Arts, 2018.
Wiener, Anna. “What Would a Museum of Capitalism Look Like?” New Yorker, August 18, 2017: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-would-a-museum-of-capitalism-look-like