A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the USA and Canada.
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'This publication, while in many ways as critical of some museum developments as Hewison's book [Heritage Industry], is by far the more informed and better argued.' - Scottish Museum News
`A solid and challenging book which deserves a wide audience ... there is a need for more like it.' - Heritage Outlook
`A solid and challenging book which deserves a wide audience ... there is a need for more like it.' - Heritage Outlook
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The museum is said to be undergoing a 'renaissance'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ironbridge Gorge, Blists Hill, Annual Report, Museum Trust, Third World, Hyde Park Barracks, Pompidou Centre, New York, Brian Durrans, Bob West, Centre Pompidou, History Workshop Journal, Ministry of Culture, North America, Alan Morton, Castle Museum, Museums Association, People's Palace, Design Museum, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Final Report of the Working Party, First World War, Gaby Porter, Jeremy Silver, Museums Journal New!
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The museum is said to be undergoing a 'renaissance'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ironbridge Gorge, Blists Hill, Annual Report, Museum Trust, Third World, Hyde Park Barracks, Pompidou Centre, New York, Brian Durrans, Bob West, Centre Pompidou, History Workshop Journal, Ministry of Culture, North America, Alan Morton, Castle Museum, Museums Association, People's Palace, Design Museum, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Final Report of the Working Party, First World War, Gaby Porter, Jeremy Silver, Museums Journal New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Making Histories: Studies in History Writing and Politics by Richard Johnson on page 19, and page 62
- Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book) by Umberto Eco on page 20, and page 21
- The Past is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal on page 19, and page 85
- Orality and Literacy (New Accents) by Walter J. Ong on page 195
- Diaries Of Hannah Cullwick (Douglass Series on Women's Lives & the Meaning of Gender) by Autumn Stanley on page 125
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- Re-Imagining the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum (Museum Meanings) by Andrea Witcomb on 5 pages
- Museum Bundle: Re-Imagining the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum (Museum Meanings) by Andrea Witcomb on 5 pages
- Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony by Linda Hutcheon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony by Linda Hutcheon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Preserving the Built Heritage: Tools for Implementation by J. Mark Schuster on page 121, and page 123
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