Civilizing the Museum: The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian

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Drawing on thirty-five years of experience, and involvement in groundbreaking museums, Gurian presents twenty-two essays that explore the possibilities for making museums more central and relevant to society. Both students and professional in the field will find this of immense interest.

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

xix

Introduction: reflections on 35 years in the museum field

(8)

PART I The importance of ``and'': about opportunities, possibilities, taxonomy, and definitions

(58)

The concept of fairness: a debate at the American Association of Museums, 1990

(3)

The importance of ``and'': a comment on Excellence and Equity, 1992

(5)

The molting of children's museums? An observation, 1998

(14)

What is the object of this exercise? A meandering exploration of the many meanings of objects in museums, 1999

(15)

Choosing among the options: an opinion about museum definitions, 2002

(9)

Timeliness: a discussion for museums, 2003

(10)

PART II A safer place: museums in a civil society

(30)

The museum as a socially responsible institution, 1988

(7)

Turning the ocean liner slowly: about the process of change in larger institutions, 1990

(6)

The opportunity for social service, 1991

(6)

A savings bank for the soul: about institutions of memory and congregant spaces, 1996

(9)

PART III Space, the final frontier: museums, construction, architecture, and space planning

(38)

Function follows form: how mixed-used spaces in museums build community, 2001

(16)

Threshold fear: architecture program planning, 2005

115

(12)

Free at last: a case for the elimination of admission charges in museums, 2005

127

(8)

PART IV Noodling around with exhibition opportunities: examining the process that influences them

135

(52)

Answers to the ten questions I am most often asked: a review of exhibitions and learning, 1981

137

(13)

Noodling around with exhibition opportunities: the potential meanings of exhibition modalities, 1991

150

(12)

Let's empower all those who have a stake in exhibitions: about the uses, meaning, and failings of the team approach, 1990

162

(5)

Reluctant recognition of the superstar: a paean to individual brilliance, and how it operates, 1992

167

(4)

A blurring of the boundaries, 1994

171

(9)

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: history or metaphor? 1993

180

(7)

PART V Spirituality: the end of the age of the rational

187

(20)

A Jew among the Indians: how working outside of one's own culture works, 1991

189

(5)

Repatriation in context: the important changes brought to museums by indigenous communities, 1991

194

(6)

Singing and dancing at night: a biographic meaning to working in the spiritual arena, 2004

200

(7)

Bibliography

207

(7)

Index

214

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