Preface / Sandra Dudley -- 1. Introduction: museums and things / Sandra Dudley -- Part I: Objects and their creation in the museum. Introduction / Jennifer Walklate -- 2. Romancing the Stones: earth science objects as material culture / Hannah-Lee Chalk -- 3. What do we know abo…
Preface / Sandra Dudley -- 1. Introduction: museums and things / Sandra Dudley -- Part I: Objects and their creation in the museum. Introduction / Jennifer Walklate -- 2. Romancing the Stones: earth science objects as material culture / Hannah-Lee Chalk -- 3. What do we know abo…
The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objec…
The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objec…
This title constitutes a diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objects in the context of museums,…
The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objec…
This title constitutes a diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objects in the context of museums,…
"The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address obje…
Introduction: Thinking about museums -- Do museums need objects anymore? -- Objects of culture and cultural objects -- Where is the East? -- Where have all the grown-ups gone? -- The birth and the death of a museum -- Museums, public space, and civic identity.