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The Museum time-machine : putting cultures on display

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Museums matter : in praise of the encyclopedic museum

Description: Powerful, passionate, and to the point, this book is the product of a lifetime of working in and thinking about museums; no museumgoer should miss it. The book is an impassioned argument for what Cuno calls the 'cosmopolitan aspirations' encyclopedic museums.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Powerful, passionate, and to the point, this book is the product of a lifetime of working in and thinking about museums; no museumgoer should miss it. The book is an…
Defining the museum's purpose

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Museums in the social and economic life of a city

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Museums in the life of a city : strategies for community partnerships

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
The poetic museum : reviving historic collections

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
The museum time machine: putting cultures on display

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Museums in a troubled world : renewal, irrelevance or collapse?

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
The idea of the museum: philosophical, artistic and political questions

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Museum ethics

Description: ... a report to the Association by its Committee on Ethics.--P.6. First published in the March/April 1978 issue of Museum news.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: ... a report to the Association by its Committee on Ethics.--P.6. First published in the March/April 1978 issue of Museum news.
Objects of knowledge

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Das Museum der Zukunft : 43 neue Beitrage zur Diskussion uber die Zukunft des Museums

Description: [50-year anniversary revision of "Museums of the Future: 43 contributions to the discussion about the future of the museum". The 2020 edition includes new contributions by international authors from museum practice in various fields.]--English translation of abstract.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: [50-year anniversary revision of "Museums of the Future: 43 contributions to the discussion about the future of the museum". The 2020 edition includes new contributions by…
Storytelling exhibitions : identity, truth and wonder

Description: "Storytelling Exhibitions describes the role and practice of modern 'spatial storytellers' and looks at the potential of exhibitions to shape our understanding of the world. It explains how curators, designers, artists and scientists combine to tell powerful stories through exhibitions that communicate ideas about identity, history, science and beyond. It also outlines how designers are utilising contemporary tools - from AR and VR to 3D scanning and digital archives - and how these new technologies interweave with traditional forms of informing, displaying and promoting in narrative spaces"--

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Storytelling Exhibitions describes the role and practice of modern 'spatial storytellers' and looks at the potential of exhibitions to shape our understanding of the world.…
Museums after modernism : strategies of engagement

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
A companion to museum studies

Description: These essays examine the complexity of the museum from cultural, political governance, curatorial, historical, and representational perspectives, ranging from traditonal subjects including space, display, buildings, and collecting to more contemporary challenges and concerns, such as visiting, commerce, community, and experimental exhibition forms.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: These essays examine the complexity of the museum from cultural, political governance, curatorial, historical, and representational perspectives, ranging from traditonal…
Creating authenticity : authentication processes in ethnographic museums

Description: "'Authenticity' and authentication is at the heart of museums' concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneering ethnographers attempted to lay bare the essences of cultures through collecting and studying objects from distant communities. Comparably, historical archaeology departed from the idea that cultures were discrete bounded entities, subject to divergence but precisely therefore also to be traced back and linked to, a more complete original form in de (even) deeper past. Much of what we work with today in ethnographic museum collections testifies to that conviction. Post-structural thinking brought about a far-reaching deconstruction of the authentic. It came to be recognized that both far-away communities and the deep past can only be discussed when seen as desires, constructions and inventions. Notwithstanding this undressing of the ways in which people portray their cultural surroundings and past, claims of authenticity and quests for authentication remain omnipresent. This book explores the authentic in contemporary ethnographic museums, as it persists in dialogues with stakeholders, and how museums portray themselves."--Back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "'Authenticity' and authentication is at the heart of museums' concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in…
Museums, society, inequality

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Learning at the museum frontiers : identity, race and power

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Pasts beyond memory : evolution museums colonialism

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Museums and their communities

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
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The Museum time-machine : putting cultures on display

Museums matter : in praise of the encyclopedic museum

Defining the museum's purpose

Museums in the social and economic life of a city

Museums in the life of a city : strategies for community partnerships

The poetic museum : reviving historic collections

The museum time machine: putting cultures on display

Museums in a troubled world : renewal, irrelevance or collapse?

The idea of the museum: philosophical, artistic and political questions

Museum ethics

Objects of knowledge

Das Museum der Zukunft : 43 neue Beitrage zur Diskussion uber die Zukunft des Museums

Storytelling exhibitions : identity, truth and wonder

Museums after modernism : strategies of engagement

A companion to museum studies

Creating authenticity : authentication processes in ethnographic museums

Museums, society, inequality

Learning at the museum frontiers : identity, race and power

Pasts beyond memory : evolution museums colonialism

Museums and their communities

The gift of curiosity