Museum Revolutions : How Museums and Change and Are Changed

, by Knell, Simon J.; Macleod, Suzanne; Watson, Sheila

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ISBN: 9780203932643 | 0203932641
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Capturing the richness of the museum studies discipline, Museum Revolutions is the ideal text for museum studies courses, providing a wide range of interlinked themes and the latest thought and research from experts in the field.

Introduction
Shaping museums and manifestos
Establishing the paradigmatic museum: Georges Cuvier's Cabinet d'anatomie comparée in Paris
William Bullock: inventing a visual language of objects
Museums, fossils and the cultural revolution of science: mapping change in the politics of knowledge in early nineteenth-century Britain
Establishing the manifesto: art histories in the nineteenth-century museum
Economic logic versus Enlightenment rationality: evolution of the museum-zoo-garden complex and the modern Indian city, 1843-1900
Occupying the architecture of the gallery: spatial, social and professional change at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1877-1933
Modernity and identity: the National Museum of Iran
Science centres: a museums studies approach to their development and possible future direction
Before 'Te Maori': a revolution deconstructed
Museums, social responsibility and the future we desire
Changing places, changing people
Making Pakeha histories in New Zealand museums: community and identity in the post-war period
History museums, community identities and a sense of place: rewriting histories
Museums and the shaping of cultural identities: visitors' recollections in local museums in Taiwan
Political and social influences affecting the sense of place in municipal museums in Portugal
Ecomuseums and sustainability in Italy, Japan and China: concept adaptation through implementation
Maori, museums and the Treaty of Waitangi: the changing politics of representation and control
Cultural entrepreneurs, sacred objects and the living museums of Africa
Charting the boundaries: Indigenous models and parallel practices in the development of the post-museum
Where to from here? Repatriation of Indigenous human remains and 'the museum'
Articulating change: media, message, philosophy
Beyond nostalgia: the role of affect in generating historical understanding at heritage sites
Visitors and learning: adult museum visitors' learning identities
Museums - drama, ritual and power
Critical museum pedagogy and exhibition development: a conceptual first step
Learning at the museum frontiers: democracy, identity and difference Viv Golding
Moral lessons and reforming agendas: history museums, science museums, contentious topics and contemporary societies
'Who knows the fate of his bones?' Rethinking the body on display: object, art or human remains?
From the document to the monument: museums and the philosophy of history
Education, postmodernity and the museum
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