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9780415006521

The Museum Time Machine: Putting Cultures on Display

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415006521

  • ISBN10:

    041500652X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1988-08-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the US, and Canada.The Museum Time Machinedeals with public controversies such as those over charges, sponsorship, and political interference, but its primary concern is with broader cultural and social questions.

Table of Contents

The Museum Time-Machinep. ii
Acknowledgementsp. vii
Notes on the Editor and Contributorsp. viii
Introductionp. 1
The Landscape of Nostalgiap. 25
Heritage and 'the Conserver Society': the French Casep. 27
The Making of the English Working Past: a Critical View of the Ironbridge Gorge Museump. 36
Museums and 'the People'p. 63
Museums in a Changing Worldp. 87
Policy and Politics: Charges, Sponsorship, and Biasp. 89
Putting Your House in Order: Representations of Women and Domestic Lifep. 102
Tomorrow's Yesterdays: Science Museums and the Futurep. 128
The Future of the Other: Changing Cultures on Display in Ethnographic Museumsp. 144
'Astonished and Somewhat Terrified': the Preservation and Development of Aural Culturep. 170
Sociology of the Museum Publicp. 197
The Pompidou Centre and Its Public: the Limits of a Utopian Sitep. 199
Counting Visitors or Visitors Who Count?p. 213
Indexp. 233
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