This book addresses the educational role museums play from an international perspective. Ideally suited for all museum staff and students of museum studies.
Black (English, Skidmore College) offers an overview of Victorian museum culture followed by an exploration of some of the most famous and outlandish museums of the period. She also analyzes the meth
Presents selections from the writings of social theorist and pioneer writer John Cotton Dana (1856-1929), founder of the Newark Museum, whose writings on the nature and purpose of museums, art, educat
Dubin (media, society, and arts, State U. of New York-Purchase) examines the most controversial US museum exhibits of the 1990s. They include shows about ethnicity, slavery, Freud, the Old West, and t
The Head of Conservation at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Ashley-Smith emphasizes areas that are of special interest to him, including materials science, the ethics of restoration, the costs of cons
Noting the paradox that art museums preserve history and culture by removing artifacts from their historical context and locating them in a timeless abstraction, Maleuvre (French and comparative liter
From its inception in the early nineteenth century, the museum has been more than a mere historical object; it has manufactured an image of history. In collecting past artifacts, the museum gives shap
On Collecting examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere.Susan Pearce looks at the way we collect and what this tells us about our
Collecting together a group of talented writers, Museum, Media, Message considers, in depth, the most up-to-date approaches to museum communication including: museums as media; museums and audience; a
This book describes successful insect eradication procedures developed at the Getty Conservation Institute and elsewhere, whereby objects are held in an atmosphere of either nitrogen or argon containi
Proposes a rationale and definition for museum theater, explores its history, and assesses its future. Topics include the nature of museums and theater, comparisons of size and discipline, and learni
Learning in the Museum begins with a brief history of education in public museums, and a rigorous examination of how the educational theories of Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky and subsequent theorists relat
Reflects on the nature of museums in the Information Age and asks whether there is still a need for cultural institutions that collect and interpret "real" objects. Explores the impact of the new med
Analyses of contemporary and historical exhibitions demonstrate the ways that technologies of display and ideas about science and objectivity are mobilized to tell stories of progress, citizenship, an
Good museum management requires a carefully considered decision as to whether a regular means of culling the collection serves the museum's best interest. This collection of texts drawn from journals
With essays by Charles Saumarez Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Paul Greenhalgh, Colin Sorensen, Nick Merriman, Stephen Bann, Philip Wright, Norman Palmer and Peter Vergo."A lively and controversial sympos
Offbeat Museums contains profiles of the curators and collections of America's most unusual museums. From the Banana Museum in California to the Tragedy in U.S. History Museum in Florida, Saul Rubin t
The American museum was not born, but made. Visionary museum innovators transformed the private curiosity collections of the 19th century into today's public institutions of education. The Museum in
From Knowledge to Narrative shows that museum educators—professionals responsible for making collections intelligble to viewers—have become central figures in shaping exhibits. Cha
Chapters covering on-line networks, digitizations of collections, cultural intellectual property, public access, finance, and management provide analyses of emerging information technology and the opp
