Museum Revolutions : How Museums and Change and Are Changed

by Knell, Simon J.; Macleod, Suzanne; Watson, Sheila

• ISBN13: 9780203932643
• ISBN10: 0203932641
• Copyright: 2007-08-31
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Capturing the richness of the museum studies discipline, Museum Revolutions is the ideal text for museum studies courses, providing a wide range of interlinked themes and the latest thought and research from experts in the field.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Shaping museums and manifestos

Establishing the paradigmatic museum: Georges Cuvier's Cabinet d'anatomie comparée in Paris

William Bullock: inventing a visual language of objects

Museums, fossils and the cultural revolution of science: mapping change in the politics of knowledge in early nineteenth-century Britain

Establishing the manifesto: art histories in the nineteenth-century museum

Economic logic versus Enlightenment rationality: evolution of the museum-zoo-garden complex and the modern Indian city, 1843-1900

Occupying the architecture of the gallery: spatial, social and professional change at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1877-1933

Modernity and identity: the National Museum of Iran

Science centres: a museums studies approach to their development and possible future direction

Before 'Te Maori': a revolution deconstructed

Museums, social responsibility and the future we desire

Changing places, changing people

Making Pakeha histories in New Zealand museums: community and identity in the post-war period

History museums, community identities and a sense of place: rewriting histories

Museums and the shaping of cultural identities: visitors' recollections in local museums in Taiwan

Political and social influences affecting the sense of place in municipal museums in Portugal

Ecomuseums and sustainability in Italy, Japan and China: concept adaptation through implementation

Maori, museums and the Treaty of Waitangi: the changing politics of representation and control

Cultural entrepreneurs, sacred objects and the living museums of Africa

Charting the boundaries: Indigenous models and parallel practices in the development of the post-museum

Where to from here? Repatriation of Indigenous human remains and 'the museum'

Articulating change: media, message, philosophy

Beyond nostalgia: the role of affect in generating historical understanding at heritage sites

Visitors and learning: adult museum visitors' learning identities

Museums - drama, ritual and power

Critical museum pedagogy and exhibition development: a conceptual first step

Learning at the museum frontiers: democracy, identity and difference Viv Golding

Moral lessons and reforming agendas: history museums, science museums, contentious topics and contemporary societies

'Who knows the fate of his bones?' Rethinking the body on display: object, art or human remains?

From the document to the monument: museums and the philosophy of history

Education, postmodernity and the museum

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