Museum Masters

Author : Sharon Macdonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781444357943

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A Companion to Museum Studies by Sharon Macdonald Pdf

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines and theoretical stances, including anthropology, art history, history, literature, sociology, cultural studies, and museum studies Examines the complexity of the museum from cultural, political, curatorial, historical and representational perspectives Covers traditional subjects, such as space, display, buildings, objects and collecting, and more contemporary challenges such as visiting, commerce, community and experimental exhibition forms

Author : Sharon Macdonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781444334050

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A Companion to Museum Studies by Sharon Macdonald Pdf

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines and theoretical stances, including anthropology, art history, history, literature, sociology, cultural studies, and museum studies Examines the complexity of the museum from cultural, political, curatorial, historical and representational perspectives Covers traditional subjects, such as space, display, buildings, objects and collecting, and more contemporary challenges such as visiting, commerce, community and experimental exhibition forms

Author : Edward Porter Alexander
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 076199131X

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Museum Masters by Edward Porter Alexander Pdf

Alexander brings to life the stories of twelve ambitious leaders from the United States and Europe who helped shape the future of the museum world.

Author : Rhiannon Mason,Alistair Robinson,Emma Coffield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351373081

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Museum and Gallery Studies by Rhiannon Mason,Alistair Robinson,Emma Coffield Pdf

Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics is an accessible guide for the student approaching Museum and Gallery Studies for the first time. Taking a global view, it covers the key ideas, approaches and contentious issues in the field. Balancing theory and practice, the book address important questions such as: What are museums and galleries? Who decides which kinds of objects are worthy of collection? How are museums and galleries funded? What ethical concerns do practitioners need to consider? How is the field of Museum and Gallery Studies developing? This user-friendly text is an essential read for anyone wishing to work within museums and galleries, or seeking to understand academic debates in the field.

Author : Kiersten F. Latham,John E. Simmons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610699525

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Foundations of Museum Studies by Kiersten F. Latham,John E. Simmons Pdf

This broad introduction to museums benefits all educators who teach introductory museum studies, addressing the discipline from a holistic, dynamic, and document-centered perspective. Museums serve to help us understand the past and navigate our future—as individuals, as societies, and as a global community. A careful and accurate assessment of a museum's purpose is crucial to its ability to serve its users effectively. Foundations of Museum Studies: Evolving Systems of Knowledge offers a holistic introduction to museums and the study of them from the perspective of specialization in museum studies within the context of library and information science (LIS). The book strikes a balance between theory and practice, examining museums from a systems perspective that considers museums to be document-centered institutions—that objects are documents that generate and convey information, meaning, and inspiration. The authors utilize examples drawn from their experience with institutions in the United States that can be applied to museums across the world. Future museum professionals who read this book will have a broader perspective, an expanded skill set, and the adaptability to span the spectrum of traditional academic disciplines.

Author : Helene Vosters
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780887555855

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Unbecoming Nationalism by Helene Vosters Pdf

Canada’s recent sesquicentennial celebrations were the latest in a long, steady progression of Canadian cultural memory projects. Unbecoming Nationalism investigates the power of commemorative performances in the production of nationalist narratives. Using “unbecoming” as a theoretical framework to unsettle or decolonize nationalist narratives, Helene Vosters examines an eclectic range of both state-sponsored social memory projects and counter-memorial projects to reveal and unravel the threads connecting reverential military commemoration, celebratory cultural nationalism, and white settler-colonial nationalism. Vosters brings readings of institutional, aesthetic, and activist performances of Canadian military commemoration, settler-colonial nationalism, and redress into conversation with literature that examines the relationship between memory, violence, and nationalism from the disciplinary arenas of performance studies, Canadian studies, critical race and Indigenous studies, memory studies, and queer and gender studies. In addition to using performance as a theoretical framework, Vosters uses performance to enact a philosophy of praxis and embodied theory.

Author : Hugh H Genoways,Mary Anne Andrei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315423999

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Museum Origins by Hugh H Genoways,Mary Anne Andrei Pdf

With the development of institutions displaying natural science, history, and art in the late 19th century came the debates over the role of these museum in society. This anthology collects 50 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from this formative period, written by the many of the American and European founders of the field. Genoways and Andrei contextualize these pieces with a series of introductions showing how the museum field developed within the social environment of the era. For those interested in museum history and philosophy or cultural history, this is an essential resource.

Author : Edward Porter Alexander
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0761989471

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The Museum in America by Edward Porter Alexander Pdf

A detailed account of the colourful histories of 13 visionary museum innovators, who transformed the 19th-century collections of curios into institutions that inform and instruct.

Author : Juliette Fritsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135767952

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Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture by Juliette Fritsch Pdf

Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation design and management can help museum visitors learn about art and material culture. The book features a range of papers by leading academics, museum learning professionals, graduate researchers and curators from Europe, the USA and Canada. The papers present diverse new research and practice in the field, and open up debate about the role, design and process of exhibition interpretation in museums, art galleries and historic sites. The authors represent both academics and practitioners, and are affiliated with high quality institutions of broad geographical scope. The result is a strong, consistent representation of current thinking across the theory, methodology and practice of interpretation design for learning in museums.

Author : Suzanne Macleod,Laura Hourston Hanks,Jonathan Hale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136445743

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Museum Making by Suzanne Macleod,Laura Hourston Hanks,Jonathan Hale Pdf

Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built museums and galleries, suggesting a fundamental re-evaluation of the processes of designing and shaping of museums. Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions examines this re-making by exploring the inherently spatial character of narrative in the museum and its potential to connect on the deepest levels with human perception and imagination. Through this uniting theme, the chapters explore the power of narratives as structured experiences unfolding in space and time as well as the use of theatre, film and other technologies of storytelling by contemporary museum makers to generate meaningful and, it is argued here, highly effective and affective museum spaces. Contributions by an internationally diverse group of museum and heritage professionals, exhibition designers, architects and artists with academics from a range of disciplines including museum studies, theatre studies, architecture, design and history cut across traditional boundaries including the historical and the contemporary and together explore the various roles and functions of narrative as a mechanism for the creation of engaging and meaningful interpretive environments.

Author : Katie Stringer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442227651

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Programming for People with Special Needs by Katie Stringer Pdf

Programming for People with Special Needs: A Guide for Museums and Historic Sites will help museums and historic sites become truly inclusive educational experiences. The book is unique because it covers education and inclusion for those with both intellectual and learning disabilities. The book features the seven key components of creating effective programming for people with special needs, especially elementary and secondary students with intellectual disabilities: Sensitivity and awareness training Planning and communication Timing Engagement and social/life skills Object-centered and inquiry-based programs Structure Flexibility In addition, this book features and discusses programs such as the Museum of Modern Art‘s Meet Me program and ones for children with autism at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn as models for other organizations to adapt for their use. Its focus on visitors of all ages who have cognitive or intellectual disabilities or special needs makes this title essential for all museum and historic site professionals, especially educators or administrators, but also for museum studies students and those interested in informal education.

Author : Gail Anderson
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759115781

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Reinventing the Museum by Gail Anderson Pdf

This reader brings together 35 seminal articles that reflect the museum world's ongoing conversation with itself and the public about what it means to be a museum—one that is relevant and responsive to its constituents and always examining and reexamining its operations, policies, collections, and programs. In conjunction with the editor's introductory material and recommended additional readings these articles will help students grasp the essentials of the dialogue and guide them on where to turn for further details and developments.

Author : Paul Schmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0984826947

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The Master's Bench by Paul Schmidt Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UCAL:B5002728

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Museum Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karen Busby,Adam Muller,Andrew Woolford
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780887554698

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The Idea of a Human Rights Museum by Karen Busby,Adam Muller,Andrew Woolford Pdf

"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and institutions elsewhere in the world that emphasize human rights and social justice. This collection brings together authors from diverse fields—law, cultural studies, museum studies, sociology, history, political science, and literature—to critically assess the potentials and pitfalls of human rights education through “ideas” museums. Accessible, engaging, and informative, the collection’s essays will encourage museum-goers to think more deeply about the content of human rights exhibits. The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first title in the University of Manitoba Press’s Human Rights and Social Justice Series. This series publishes work that explores the quest for social justice and the basic rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled, including civil, political, economic, social, collective, and cultural rights.