In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's "Museums in Motion" was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the eighteenth century with a detailed examination of the function of museums and museum workers in modern society, it serv…
In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's Museums in Motion was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the eighteenth century with a detailed examination of the function of museums and museum workers in modern society, it served…
In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's "Museums in Motion" was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the eighteenth century with a detailed examination of the function of museums and museum workers in modern society, it serv…
Museums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture first provides a theoretical framework of how the critical notions of place, community, and culture are changing in the digital age, respective to the field of museology.
Memoirs of a hypnotist: 100 days
by Lutyens, Marcos, Cwynar, Kari, Malašauskas, Raimundas
Queering the museum
by Sullivan, Nikki, Middleton, Craig
fromRoutledge museums in focus
Queering the museum
by Sullivan, Nikki, Middleton, Craig
fromRoutledge museums in focus
"Queering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing. Providing a critique of both the practices and conventions associa…
Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, with screens and audio-visual projections frequently encountered by museum visitors. But when did films start to be displayed in museum galleries? And what are the issues at stake when showing m…
With an innovative and strongly interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this book offers an extensive investigation of the use of audio-visuals in exhibition design.
Introductory -- Curating the ancient Middle East / Geoff Emberling and Lucas Petit -- Museum displays and the creation of the ancient Middle East : a view from the Ashmolean and the British museum / Paul Collins -- Ancient "art" in the white cube? or how contemporary art creates…
" 'Museums and the Challenge of Change' explores the profound challenges facing museums and charts ways forward that are grounded in partnership with audiences and communities on-site, online and in wider society. Facing new generations with growing needs and desires, growing po…