Blurring the Boundaries: Collaborative Library and Museum Exhibitions in Los Angeles

Abstract

Is it in the library or the museum? For those of us who work in libraries, archives, or museums where collections occasionally overlap and cross over, this is a frequent question to which one could respond with another question: does it really matter? Rather than trying to answer this question directly, I will instead describe specific objects and exhibition contexts in which library, archival, and museum collections have enjoyed notably positive encounters. Although it is located on the campus of the Getty Center in Los Angeles alongside the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute . . .