Add to ORKGDrawing from the history of museums in Western Europe, Israel, the United States and the former Soviet Union, this collection of essays focuses on the governing ideologies behind the practices and strategies of display in institutions shown to be equally guided by historical structures and narratives. As the editors note, common themes and insights link the essays within and across their division into three separate sections: Histories, Discourses, and Spectacles. Index, 15 p. Biographical notes on contributors. Circa 500 bibl. ref
When I became interested in museums, some thirty years ago, the existing literature was quite sparse...
In the last twenty years, museums have revised and enhanced the relationship with their past. Within...
"The contradictory character of museums leads the author to a philosophical reflection on history, o...
Museums are the staging grounds of culture-a close look reveals that museums display much more than ...
"Throwing open to debate the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures pro...
Abstract: Museum as an institution has been, throughout history, inevitably connected with ideology,...
The comparatively recent and rapid expansion of museum studies, accompanied by increased...
This collection reflects on the ways in which historically and trans-culturally collections have bee...
This essay aims at history of museums, how the concept of museum appears, types of museums and some ...
A modern museum evokes a certain imaginary, with a history going back to private and less systemati...
Museum Theory offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and intellectual...
Museums, Power, Knowledge brings together new research with a set of essays initially published in d...
Museums are much more than containers of things. They are institutions that reveal a great deal abou...
Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behin...
Museum and culture studies traditionally approach social issues related to national museum narrative...
When I became interested in museums, some thirty years ago, the existing literature was quite sparse...
In the last twenty years, museums have revised and enhanced the relationship with their past. Within...
"The contradictory character of museums leads the author to a philosophical reflection on history, o...
Museums are the staging grounds of culture-a close look reveals that museums display much more than ...
"Throwing open to debate the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures pro...
Abstract: Museum as an institution has been, throughout history, inevitably connected with ideology,...
The comparatively recent and rapid expansion of museum studies, accompanied by increased...
This collection reflects on the ways in which historically and trans-culturally collections have bee...
This essay aims at history of museums, how the concept of museum appears, types of museums and some ...
A modern museum evokes a certain imaginary, with a history going back to private and less systemati...
Museum Theory offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and intellectual...
Museums, Power, Knowledge brings together new research with a set of essays initially published in d...
Museums are much more than containers of things. They are institutions that reveal a great deal abou...
Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behin...
Museum and culture studies traditionally approach social issues related to national museum narrative...
When I became interested in museums, some thirty years ago, the existing literature was quite sparse...
In the last twenty years, museums have revised and enhanced the relationship with their past. Within...
"The contradictory character of museums leads the author to a philosophical reflection on history, o...