Format:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
9780203361023
Series Statement:
Museum Meanings Ser.
Content:
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 away from the idea that museums are always 'conservative' to suggest they have a long history of engaging with popular culture and addressing a variety of audiences. She argues that museums are key mediators between high and popular culture and between government, media practitioners, cultural policy-makers and museums professionals. Analyzing links between museums and the media, looking at the role of museums in cities, and discussing the effects on museums of cultural policies, Re-Imagining the Museum presents a vital tool in the study of museum practice.
Content:
Intro -- Re-Imagining the Museum Beyond the Mausoleum -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Unmasking a different museum: museums and cultural criticism -- Close encounters -- 2 Floating the museum -- Anchoring tourism in maritime museums -- Sidestepping the rhetoric -- The displacement of the citizen? -- 3 From Batavia to Australia II: negotiating changes in curatorial practices -- The origins of the Western Australian Maritime Museum -- Implications for the curatorial culture at the Museum -- Conclusions -- 4 'A place for all of us'? Museums and communities -- 'A place for all of us'? -- Teaching 'civic reform': the uses of community galleries -- Representation versus production -- The role of history and its impact on the curatorial process -- Community versus museum: empiricism versus abstraction -- Dialogue and cultural policy -- Where to now? -- 5 Beyond the mausoleum: museums and the media -- Materialism and the temple as a treasure house -- Objects and power -- From treasure house to touch screens: the displacement of the object -- Modernity, popular culture and journalism -- The museum and the popular press: an Assyrian tale -- Tales of Paris -- 'A museum for the global village' -- Media impacts -- 6 Interactivity in museums: the politics of narrative style -- Interactivity and museums -- Technological interactivity and its limitations: the Museum of Tolerance -- 'Spatial' interactivity at the Australian National Maritime Museum -- Narrative as a design issue -- Understanding serial narratives: a media approach -- The politics of serial narratives in museums -- Serial narratives and history genres -- Dialogic interactivity at the Museum of Sydney -- A little history -- Creating dialogue -- Beyond the Museum of Sydney -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415220989
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0415220998
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415220989
Additional Edition:
Print version Re-Imagining the Museum : Beyond the Mausoleum
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=170673
