Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice.

A new publication by UCL Press, Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice, recognises collections management as a political, critical and social project, involving considerable intellectual labour that often goes unacknowledged within institutions and in the fields of museum and heritage studies. Co-edited by Cara Krmpotich and Alice Stevenson, the open access volume features a contribution from Bruno Brulon Soares with the chapter 'Collecting the sacred: the transition of diasporic objects in between museum regimes'.

In his chapter, Brulon Soares observes a context of community dispute and cultural exchange between different heritage regimes in the transfer of an Afro-Brazilian sacred collection from the Civil Police Museum to the Republic Museum, in Rio de Janeiro. The chapter explores the challenges in collections management involving the co-curation of a politically charged religious collection when museums are open to share authority with source communities.