condensed discuss document expanded export feedback print share remove reset document_white enquire_white export_white report_white

Collections Online

Collections record

discuss document export feedback print share gallery-landscape xml

Museums and social change : challenging the unhelpful museum

documentary heritage
  • Other Name

    Museum meanings (Series)

  • Description

    "Museums and Social Change explores the ways museums can work in collaboration with marginalised groups to work for social change and, in so doing, re-think the museum. Drawing on the first-hand experiences of museum practitioners and their partners around the world, the volume demonstrates the impact of a shared commitment to collaborative, reflective practice.

    Including analytical discussion from practitioners in their collegial work with women, the homeless, survivors of institutionalised child abuse and people with disabilities, the book draws attention to the significant contributions of small, specialist museums in bringing about social change. It is here, the book argues, that the new museum emerges: when museum practitioners see themselves as partners, working with others to lead social change, this is where museums can play a distinct and important role. Emerging in response to ongoing calls for museums to be more inclusive and participate in meaningful engagement, Museums and Social Change will be essential reading for academics and students working in museum and gallery studies, librarianship, archives, heritage studies and arts management. It will also be of great interest to those working in history and cultural studies, as well as museum practitioners and social activists around the world"--Publisher's website.

  • Place
    Abingdon, England, United Kingdom New York City, New York, United States
  • Other Id

    AM7.M88 MUS (Library of Congress Call Number)

    92531 (Cat ID)

    92329 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    Museums and social change : challenging the unhelpful museum
  • Other Name

    Museum meanings (Series)

  • Primary Maker

    Adele Chynoweth

    Bernadette Lynch

    Klaus Petersen

    Sarah Smed

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
  • Place
    Abingdon, England, United Kingdom New York City, New York, United States
  • Date
    2021
  • Physical Description

    xxiii, 190 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9780367228002
    0367228009
    9780367228019
    0367228017
  • Language
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category

    Museums and community

    Museums--Social aspects

    Museums--Management

  • Content
    Foreword / David Fleming -- Editors? Preface -- Introduction - Neither helpful nor unhelpful ? a clear way forward for the useful museum / Bernadette Lynch
    PART I: Museums and co-creation -- 1 Behind barbed wire: Co-producing the Danish Welfare Museum / Sarah Smed -- 2. Rewriting the script: Power and change through a Museum of Homelessness / Jessica and Matthew Turtle -- 3. March of Women:equality and usefulness in action at Glasgow Women?s Library / Adele Patrick -- 4. In the name of the museum: The cultural actions and values of the Togo Rural Village Art Museum, Taiwan / Ying-Ying Lai
    Part II: Revealing hidden narratives -- 5. Revealing hidden stories at the Danish Welfare Museum: A collaborative history / Jeppe Wichmann Rasmussen -- 6. Doors, stairways and pitfalls: Care Leavers? memory work at the Danish Welfare Museum / Stine Gr°nbµk Jensen -- 7. ?We cannot change the past, but we can change how we look at the past?: The use of creative writing in facing up to personal histories at the Danish Welfare Museum / Trisse Gejl -- 8. Invite, acknowledge and collect with respect: sensitive narratives at the Vest-Agder Museum, Norway / Kathrin Pabst -- 9. ?Nothing about, us without us?: The journey to cultural democracy at Amgueddfa Cymru ? National Museum Wales / Sioned Hughes and Nia Williams -- 10. Slow, uncomfortable, and badly paid: DisPLACE and the benefits of disability history / Manon S. Parry, Corrie Tijsseling, and Paul van Trigt
    Part III: Taking back -- 11. The act of emancipating oneself: The museum and the release of adult Care Leavers' case records / Jacob Knage Rasmussen -- 12. A call to justice at the National Museum of Australia / Adele Chynoweth
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: People with social disabilities--Education]

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
The development of the Auckland War Memorial Museum online collection is an ongoing process; updates, new images and records are added weekly. In some cases, records have yet to be confirmed by Museum staff, and there could be mistakes or omissions in the information provided.

The gift of curiosity

With unlimited free entry to all paid exhibitions, discounted event tickets and exclusive Member-only events, a Museum Membership is the gift that keeps on giving year-round.

SEE OPTIONS FROM $60

The gift of curiosity