Using examples of indigenous models from Indonesia, the Pacific, Africa and native North America, Christina Kreps illustrates how the growing recognition of indigenous curation and concepts of cultura
Re-Imagining the Museum presents new interpretations of museum history and contemporary museum practices. Through a range of case studies from the UK, North America and Australia, Andrea Witcomb moves
Using examples of indigenous models from Indonesia, the Pacific, Africa and native North America, Christina Kreps illustrates how the growing recognition of indigenous curation and concepts of cultura
Re-Imagining the Museum presents new interpretations of museum history and contemporary museum practices.Through a range of case studies from the UK, North America and Australia, Andrea Witcomb moves
Educators who work for or have experience with museums explain how to run programs that will attract adults. They consider such aspects as adult learners as a unique audience, types of programs, plann
Provides guidelines and forms for holding a meeting with community members about the civic role and activities of a particular museum. The seven sections identify the potential of the arts and humanit
What do people learn from visiting museums and how do they learn it? The editors approach this question by focusing on conversations as both the process and the outcome of museum learning. People do n
Contributors from museums, historical societies, and cultural organizations consider what assets museums contribute to the shared enterprise of building and strengthening community bonds. A report fro
Object-centered learning in a relatively new field of inquiry for psychologists and educators that weaves together threads from the 19th-century study and exhibition of objects by curators and museum
In this volume of 29 essays, Weil's overarching concern is that museums be able to “earn their keep”—that they make themselves matter—in an environment of potentially shrinking resources. Also include
Museums, Society, Inequality explores the wide-ranging social roles and responsibilities of the museum. It brings together international perspectives to stimulate critical debate, inform the work of p
The impact of light on works of art and archival materials has long been an issue of concern to conservators and other museum professionals, yet the literature on this subject has never been systemati
The American Association of Museums, reacting to the current concerns on Holocaust-era art theft, has produced a guide to the field. Initial chapters describe provenance, its importance, and how prove
This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual cultur
Curators from the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford U.) and the Australian National University, along with other anthropologists from Europe, the US, and Australia draw on collections of artifacts and other
During the past thirty years, museums of all kinds have tried to become more responsive to the interests of a diverse public. With exhibitions becoming people-centered, idea-oriented, and contextualiz
This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual cultur
Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between memory and histo
