Mediating Memory in the Museum is a contribution to an emerging field of research that is situated at the interface between memory studies and museum studies. It highlights the role of museums in the proliferation of the so-called memory boom as well as the influence of memory discourses on international trends in museum cultures.
Routledge, 2019. — 144 p. Not satisfied with the assertion that museums have taken great strides in becoming representative, relevant and open in their preoccupations, A Museum in Public contends that the supposedly public nature of their institutional role continues to be a rhetorical one. This book critically examines museums as institutions of the public sphere, questioning...
London: Verso, 2012. — 383 p. The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents. Artificial Hells: The Historic Avant-garde. Je participe, tu participes, il participe. Social Sadism Made Explicit. The Social Under Socialism. Incidental People: APG and Community Arts. Former West: Art as Project in the Early 1990s. Delegated Performance: Outsourcing Authenticity. Pedagogic...
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 241 p. How would our understanding of museums change if we used the Vintage Wireless Museum or the Museum of Witchcraft as examples – rather than the British Museum or the Louvre? Although there are thousands of small, independent, single-subject museums in the UK, Europe and North America, the field of museum studies remains focused almost...
Left Coast Press, 2014. — 158 p. Two experienced exhibit designers lead you through the complex process of design and installation of natural history exhibitions. The authors introduce the history and function of natural history museums and their importance in teaching visitors the basic principles of science. The book then offers you practical tricks and tips of the trade, to...
University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 360 p. Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? These questions are at the heart of...
University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 360 p. Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? These questions are at the heart of...
Alessandro Conti, Helen Glanville. Oxford: Elsevir, 2007. — 436 p. — ISBN: 0750669535 At times controversial and uncompromising, always intellectually honest, Alessandro Conti’s book is - astonishingly – the only attempt to comprehensively chart in time, the changing impact of man’s desire to preserve for future generations the materials, meaning and appearances of works of...
Routledge, 2016. — 283 p. Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums, almost no critical attention has been given...
MultiMondes, 2006. — 307 p. L’éducation muséale vue du Canada, des États-Unis et d’Europe : recherche sur les programmes et les expositions = Education in museums as seen in Canada, the United States and Europe: research on programs and exhibitions. Textes présentés lors de deux colloques organisés sous l’égide de la Société canadienne pour l’étude de l’éducation par le Groupe...
Routledge, 2019. — 262 p. The Living History Anthology brings together twenty-six practical essays on the craft of establishing and running living history museums. Contributions cover all aspects of developing and running a living history site. Including contributions on strategic planning, human resource management, research programs, collection policies, and engagement with...
The Museum of Modern Art, 1999. — 305 p. — ISBN: 0870700928, 087070091, 0810961970. The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect surveys the ways in which artists, mostly of the present century, have addressed the museum, commented on its nature, confronted its concepts and functions, drawn from its methods, and examined its relationship to the art it contains. This lively, involving,...
Routledge, 2015. — 268 p. Current discourse on Indigenous engagement in museum studies is often dominated by curatorial and academic perspectives, in which community voice, viewpoints, and reflections on their collaborations can be under-represented. This book provides a unique look at Indigenous perspectives on museum community engagement and the process of...
University Of Chicago Press, 2016. — 296 p. All museums are sex museums. In Sex Museums, Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality — particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed — and asks what role museums have played in using display as a technique for disciplining sexuality. Most museum exhibits, she argues, assume...
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