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Museums now engage with hot topics like terrorism, climate change, and social justice. This collection explores the role of cultural institutions in a complex world, examining how they can activate conversations and action through both new theories and practical means.
Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums engages the highly problematic and increasingly important issue of museums, science centres, their roles in contemporary societies, their engagement with “hot” topics and their part in wider conversations in a networked public culture. Hot topics such as homosexuality, sexual, and racial violence, massacres, drugs, terrorism, GMO foods, H1M1 (swine flu) and climate change are now all part of museological culture. The authors in this collection situate cultural institutions in an increasingly interconnected, complex, globalising and uncertain world and engage the why and how institutions might form part of, activate conversations and action through discussions that theorise institutions in new ways to the very practical means in which institutions might engage their constituencies.
The digital revolution directly concerns museums. This collection highlights how curators tackle the challenges of digital technology, exploring its impact on exhibitions, the conservation of digital works, communication, and the legal aspects of digitalisation.
This volume looks at the future of museums, confronting challenges like funding cuts and a dubious art trade. It also explores exciting prospects, from new possibilities in display and visitor experience to the rising visitor numbers at major museums worldwide.
This volume explores the transformation of art museums in the modern world, considering their role in society, pedagogy, and education. It offers inspirational strategies for museums shifting from traditional to innovative methods and features interviews with educators.
This book covers 636 open-air museums in 31 European countries, exploring the evolution of vernacular architecture and reconstructed rural life. Illustrated with 2339 photos, it provides valuable insights for scholars, readers, and museums on attracting visitors.
Museums present authorized versions of reality but rarely discuss their priorities or ask “what are the other truths?” This collection of essays highlights contested truths, the truths of the underprivileged, and asks what the consequences for museums should be.
When financial hardship forced the Brooklyn Museum to sell a Book of Hours, a dealer purchased and dismembered it for profit. This book uncovers the moral complexities of the sale, identifies the manuscript’s original owner, and digitally reconstructs the priceless text.
The era of conceptualising archaeology as a purely academic exercise is over. This book argues for a curricular revolution in West Africa, uniting the field with heritage, tourism, and museum management to create employment through Cultural Resource Management (CRM).
Cultural heritage is the stage on which we play out our identities. It is the code governing our relationship with a globalised world. This book explores subjects from Kylie Minogue to DNA research in places as distant as Jakarta, Trinidad, and New York.
This encyclopedic account details the great white sharks preserved in European museums. It also covers their evolution, anatomy, and feeding. Enhanced by photographs and drawings, this book brings the extraordinary world of the great white shark to life.
