The Museum Time Machine: Putting Cultures on Display

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ISBN: 9780415006521 | 041500652X
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Copyright: 8/1/1988

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A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the US, and Canada.The Museum Time Machinedeals with public controversies such as those over charges, sponsorship, and political interference, but its primary concern is with broader cultural and social questions.

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The Museum Time-Machine	p. ii
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on the Editor and Contributors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
The Landscape of Nostalgia	p. 25
Heritage and 'the Conserver Society': the French Case	p. 27
The Making of the English Working Past: a Critical View of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum	p. 36
Museums and 'the People'	p. 63
Museums in a Changing World	p. 87
Policy and Politics: Charges, Sponsorship, and Bias	p. 89
Putting Your House in Order: Representations of Women and Domestic Life	p. 102
Tomorrow's Yesterdays: Science Museums and the Future	p. 128
The Future of the Other: Changing Cultures on Display in Ethnographic Museums	p. 144
'Astonished and Somewhat Terrified': the Preservation and Development of Aural Culture	p. 170
Sociology of the Museum Public	p. 197
The Pompidou Centre and Its Public: the Limits of a Utopian Site	p. 199
Counting Visitors or Visitors Who Count?	p. 213
Index	p. 233
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