Museums

La muséologie: histoire, développements, enjeux actuels

by Gob, André, Drouguet, Noémie

fromCollection U.

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« La muséologie, à la croisée de la communication, la sociologie, l'histoire et la pédagogie, s'est imposée en tant que discipline académique et formation professionnelle à part entière. Cet ouvrage en dresse un panorama complet, illustré d'exemples, et présente les développemen…

Memory and ethnicity: ethnic museums in Israel and the Diaspora

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In recent times, ethnicity and issues of origin have become a hotly debated topic among Jews both in Israel and in the Diaspora. This is particularly true both of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, who for years had remained at the margins of the Israeli national narrat…

Memory and ethnicity: ethnic museums in Israel and the Diaspora

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In recent times, ethnicity and issues of origin have become a hotly debated topic among Jews both in Israel and in the Diaspora. This is particularly true both of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, who for years had remained at the margins of the Israeli national narrat…

The private collector's museum: public good versus private gain

by Walker, Georgina S.

fromRoutledge Research in Museum Studies

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The Private Collector's Museum connects the rising popularity of private museums with evolving models of collecting and philanthropy, and new inter-relationships between private and public space. It examines how contemporary collectors construct museums to frame themselves as cu…

The private collector's museum: public good versus private gain

by Walker, Georgina S.

fromRoutledge Research in Museum Studies

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The Private Collector's Museum connects the rising popularity of private museums with evolving models of collecting and philanthropy, and new inter-relationships between private and public space. It examines how contemporary collectors construct museums to frame themselves as cu…

The Second World War in the twenty-first-century museum: from narrative, memory, and experience to experie…

by Jaeger, Stephan

fromMedia and cultural memory

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The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It analyzes twelve permanent…

The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experie…

by Jaeger, Stephan, Knowledge Unlatched

fromMedia and cultural memory = Medien und kulturelle erinnerung

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The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It analyzes twelve permanent…

Independent museums and culture centres in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe: non-state players, local communities and self-rep…

fromRoutledge research on museums and heritage in Africa

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"Independent Museums and Culture Centres in Colonial and Postcolonial Zimbabwe presents case studies that grapple with the issue of 'decolonising practice' in privately owned museums and cultural centres in Zimbabwe. Including contributions from academics and practitioners, this…

Independent museums and culture centres in colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe: non-state players, local communities, and self-re…

fromRoutledge research on museums and heritage in Africa

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"Independent Museums and Culture Centres in Colonial and Postcolonial Zimbabwe presents case studies that grapple with the issue of 'decolonising practice' in privately owned museums and cultural centres in Zimbabwe. Including contributions from academics and practitioners, this…

Ephemeral spectacles, exhibition spaces and museums, 1750-1918

by McHugh, Amy, Vignone, Cristina, Haklin, Kathryn A., Taylor-Leduc, Susan, Murgia, Camilla

fromSpatial imageries in historical perspective

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This book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918. In an era of acceleration and elusiveness, these transient spaces functioned as microcosms in which reality was shown, simulated, staged, imagined, experienced and known. They therefore had a dimension of spectacle to t…

Victorians and their animals: beast on a leash

fromPerspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

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"Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash investigates the notion that British Victorians did see themselves as naturally dominant species over other humans and over animals. They conscientiously, hegemonically were determined to rule those beneath them and the animal with…