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Author : Alberta Museums Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Museum techniques
ISBN : 0993715206
Author : Dan Hicks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Bronzes
ISBN : 1786806843
Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. 0The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museum, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of awider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
Author : Jeff Keshen,David Jay Bercuson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 177385058X
"A special publication of University of Calgary Press."
Author : Shimrit Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771136324
Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care.
Author : Colin Divall,Andrew Scott
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780718501068
This book is the first in 30 years to take transport museums seriously as vehicles for the making of public histories. Drawing upon many years' experience of visiting and working in transport museums around the world, the authors argue that the sector's historical roots are more complex than is usually thought. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective but firmly rooted in the practice of making public histories, this book brings the study of transport museums firmly into the mainstream of academic and professional debate.>
Author : C. Kurt Dewhurst,Patricia Hall,Charlie Seemann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442272934
This cutting-edge new book is the replacement for Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings which was published nearly thirty years ago in 1987. The editors of that volume, Patricia Hall and Charlie Seemann, are now joined by C. Kurt Dewhurst as a third editor, for this book which includes updates to the still-relevant and classic essays and articles from the earlier text and features new pioneering pieces by some of today’s most outstanding scholars and practitioners, to provide a more current overview of the field and addressing contemporary issues. Folklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century Perspectives is a brand new collection of cutting-edge essays that combine theoretical insights, practical applications, topical case studies (focusing on particular subject matter areas and specific cultural groups), accompanied by up-to-date “resources” and “suggested readings” sections. Each essay is preceded by an explanatory headnote contextualizing the essay and includes illustrative photographs.
Author : Jan E. Burdick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781581159530
What kinds of jobs are available in museums? How do museums work? What opportunities are there in museum research and collection, preserving and cataloging, exhibiting and interpreting, publicity, administration, event planning, catering, support? Creative Careers in Museums answers all these questions and many more, with full information on how everyone can pinpoint and showcase their existing skills--then turn those skills into a dream job at a museum or other cultural institution. Interviews with people who have made career transitions into the field are packed with practical and inspiring ideas, and there’s even information on starting new museums. Advice on targeting potential employers, putting together a resume, interviewing, and landing the job, plus an extensive resource list, make this the perfect starting point for anyone who wants to work in a museum.
Author : Carol A. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317092889
Public Value speaks to our time - to the role that museums can play in creating civil societies, to the challenges involved in using limited assets strategically, to the demand for results that make a difference and to the imperative that we build the kind of engagement that sustains our futures. This book assists museum leaders to implement a Public Value approach in their management, planning, programming and relationship building. The benefits are long term public engagement and support, which can be used to demonstrate that valuable returns result from public investment in museums. A range of authors from around the world unpack the concept of Public Value and examine its implications for museums. They situate Public Value within current management theory and practice, offer tools for implementation, highlight examples of successful practice and examine the evidence of Public Value that governments seek to inform policy and funding decisions. The book will be required reading for senior professionals in museums, as well as museum and heritage studies students.
Author : Mark O'Neill,Glenn Hooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351036160
Connecting Museums explores the boundaries of museums and how external relationships are affected by internal commitments, structures and traditions. Focusing on museums’ relationship with heath, inclusion, and community, the book provides a detailed assessment of the alliances between museums and other stakeholders in recent years. With contributions from practitioners and established and early-career academics, this volume explore the ideas and practices through which museums are seeking to move beyond what might be called one-off contributions to society, to reach places where the museum is dynamic and facilitates self-generation and renewal, where it can become not just a provider of a cultural service, but an active participant in the rehabilitation of social trust and democratic participation. The contributors to this volume provide conceptual critiques and clarification of a number of key ideas which form the basis of the ethics of museum legitimacy, as well as a number of reports from the front line about the experience of trying to renew museums as more valuable and more relevant institutions. Providing internal and external perspectives, Connecting Museums presents a mix of applied and theoretical understandings of the changing roles of museums today. As such, the book should be of interest to academics, researchers and students working in the broad fields of museum and heritage studies, material culture, and arts and museum management.
Author : Rinella Cere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000317527
An International Study of Film Museums examines how cinema has been transformed and strengthened through museological and archival activities since its origins and asks what paradoxes may be involved, if any, in putting cinema into a museum. Cere explores the ideas that were first proposed during the first half of the twentieth century around the need to establish national museums of cinema and how these have been adapted in the subsequent development of the five case studies presented here: four in Europe and one in the USA. The book traces the history of the five museums' foundation, exhibitions, collections, and festivals organised under their aegis and it asks how they resolve the tensions between cinema as an aesthetic artefact – now officially recognised as part of humanity's cultural heritage – and cinema as an entertainment and leisure activity. It also gives an account of recent developments around unifying collections, exhibition activities and archives in one national film centre that offers the general public a space totally devoted to film and cinematographic culture. An International Study of Film Museums provides a unique comparative study of museums of cinema in varying national contexts. The book will be of interest to academics and students around the world who are engaged in the study of museums, archives, heritage, film, history and visual culture.
Author : Zetta Elliott
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : African American girls
ISBN : 1537580965
Milo is excited about her class trip to the museum. The docent leads them on a tour and afterward Milo has time to look around on her own. But something doesn't feel right, and Milo gradually realizes that the people from her community are missing from the museum. When her aunt urges her to find a solution, Milo takes matters into her own hands and opens her own museum!
Author : Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert,Alexandra Bounia,Antigone Heraclidou
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781800733756
How can emerging technologies display, reveal and negotiate difficult, dissonant, negative or undesirable heritage? Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonstrate how “awkward”, contested, and rarely discussed subjects and stories are treated – or can be potentially treated - in a museum setting with the use of the latest technology.
Author : Kathleen Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781351106870
The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable contributors to knowledge and the progress of empire. This book addresses the complex relationship between natural history and photography from the 1850s to the 1880s in Britain and its colonies: Australia, New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, India. Coinciding with the rise of the modern museum, photography’s arrival was timely, and it rapidly became an essential technology for recording and publicising rare objects and valuable collections. Also during this period, the medium assumed a more significant role in the professional practices and reputations of naturalists than has been previously recognized, and it figured increasingly within the expanding specialized networks that were central to the production and dissemination of new knowledge. In an interrogation that ranges from the first forays into museum photography and early attempts to document collecting expeditions to the importance of traditional and photographic portraiture for the recognition of scientific discoveries, this book not only recasts the parameters of what we actually identify as natural history photography in the Victorian era but also how we understand the very structure of empire in relation to this genre at that time.
Author : Kate Brueggemann,Donna McGinnis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003814443
Fundraising Management in a Changing Museum World explains how cultural organizations can successfully create sustainable fundraising programs that will increase financial support and stabilize revenue during times of change. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience, this book provides guidance that will enable readers to establish and maintain an efficient and effective fundraising program. Demonstrating that a strategic fundraising management plan is critical for identifying areas of growth, the authors also clarify how it helps to leverage an institution's resources and connections and ensure that time and budget are invested into the right activities. Readers will learn how to develop a plan for their organization, choose appropriate methods of solicitation for their audiences, and identify the roles of employees and volunteers in the process. Fundraising Management in a Changing Museum World is relevant to practitioners working in many different types and sizes of institutions around the world. The book is essential reading for development professionals, as well as other museum practitioners, leaders, and volunteers. It is a valuable tool for early career professionals and students considering employment in the cultural field.
Author : Ulrike Spring,Johan Schimanski,Thea Aarbakke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781800732445
Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies centered not only on biography, but also literary texts, imagined spaces, different readers, historical contexts, architectural concepts, and artistic interventions. As this volume shows, the changing of spaces asks how literary museums create new ways of interlinking real and literary spaces, texts, objects, readers, and tourists.
