Making Histories in Museums

by Kavanagh, Gaynor

• ISBN13: 9780718500085
• ISBN10: 0718500083
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

This exciting new series recognizes the tremendous potential of museum-based histories and the ways in which they can engage people with ideas about the past. People encounter and use museums on many different levels - personal, social and intellectual - and access meanings that best fit their agendas. Histories in museums can stimulate the imagination, provoke discussion and increase our ability to question what we know. From this it can be deduced that history in museums is as much about the present as it is about the past; as much about how we feel as about what we know; as much about who we are as about who we have been.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vii
Contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
Making Histories, Making Memories	1	(14)
Gaynor Kavanagh
Time Heals: Making History in Medical Museums	15	(15)
Ken Arnold
Making Rural Histories	30	(12)
Jonathan Bell
Why Not Invent the Past We Display in Museums?	42	(12)
Anthony D. Buckley
Trying To Be an Honest Woman: Making Women's Histories	54	(12)
Elizabeth Carnegie
Making Family Histories in the National Portrait Gallery, Australia	66	(14)
Julia Clark
African Americans, History and Museums: Preserving African American History in the Public Arena	80	(12)
Spencer R. Crew
Making Histories of African Caribbeans	92	(13)
Alissandra Cummins
Cleaning Up the Coal-Face and Doing Out the Kitchen: The Interpretation of Work and Workers in Wales	105	(11)
Kath Davies
Hard Men, Hard Facts and Heavy Metal: Making Histories of Technology	116	(15)
Lawrence Fitzgerald
Making City Histories	131	(12)
David Fleming
Travellers' Boots, Body-Moulding, Rubber Fetish Clothes: Making Histories of Sub-cultures	143	(9)
Amy de la Haye
Making Histories of Wars	152	(11)
Simon Jones
Making Histories of Sexuality	163	(13)
Mark Liddiard
Making Culturally Diverse Histories	176	(12)
Nick Merriman
Nima Poovaya-Smith
Making Histories of Religion	188	(12)
Mark O'Neill
Making Histories from Archaeology	200	(16)
Janet Owen
History and Folklore	216	(12)
James Rattue
Making the History Curriculum	228	(12)
John Reeve
Shadows and Sacred Geography: First Nations History-Making from an Alberta Perspective	240	(18)
Michael Ross
Reg Crowshoe
Making Children's Histories	258	(13)
Brian W. Shepherd
Index	271