Journal of the History of Collections

期刊简介：The Journal of the History of Collections is dedicated to the investigation and documentation of all aspects of collecting activity. Its interests range as far back as the earliest Renaissance cabinets and beyond – both medieval and Roman period collections have received attention in the past. No limit is set on more recent practice, so that essays on later twentieth-century collectors have featured regularly. The range of subject-matter treated in the Journal is equally catholic: the earliest universal collections and those that came to engage with more specialized subject areas receive equal attention. Indeed, it is a fundamental tenet of editorial policy that papers in whatever specialized discipline should be presented in a manner that renders them accessible to the whole readership – widespread in terms both of geography and of subject interest – and are not addressed to a single community. From its inception the Journal has sought to provide a platform from which researchers can speak to each other across disciplinary boundaries: it is well known that the mechanisms of collecting and classification developed in natural history, for example, came to influence practices amongst collectors and curators in the fine arts and in ethnography, hence every opportunity is taken here to illustrate and to illuminate the common ground that exists between all those whose researches were founded on material collections. More theoretically oriented papers on the history and theory of museums and museum practice are likely to be better placed elsewhere.

【译文】《收藏史杂志》致力于调查和记录收藏活动的各个方面。它的兴趣范围可以追溯到最早的文艺复兴时期的橱柜甚至更早——中世纪和罗马时期的藏品在过去都受到了关注。最近的实践没有受到限制，因此关于二十世纪后期收藏家的文章经常出现。该杂志处理的主题范围同样广泛：最早的通用收藏和那些涉及更专业主题领域的收藏受到同样的关注。事实上，编辑政策的一个基本原则是，任何专业学科的论文都应该以一种让全体读者都能接触到的方式呈现——在地理和主题兴趣方面都广泛存在——而不是针对单一群体。从创刊之初起，该杂志就致力于提供一个平台，让研究人员能够跨越学科界限相互交流：众所周知，自然历史中发展起来的收集和分类机制开始影响美术和民族志收藏家和策展人的实践，因此这里利用一切机会来说明和阐明所有基于材料收藏进行研究的人们之间存在的共同点。更多关于博物馆历史和理论以及博物馆实践的理论性论文可能会更好地放在其他地方。