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  • Inside the Lost Museum

    Curating, Past and Present

    par Steven Lubar ...
    Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our senses and orchestrate our impressions, balancing presentation and preservation, information and emotion. Curators consider visitors’ interactions with ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Legacies

    Collecting America's History at the Smithsonian

    The Smithsonian Institution has been America's museum since 1846. What do its vast collections -- from the ruby slippers to a piece of Plymouth Rock, first ladies' gowns to patchwork quilts, a Model T Ford to a customized Ford LTD low rider -- tell Americans about themselves? In this lavishly illustrated guide to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Steven Lubar and Kathleen M. ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

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  • Reflections of a Culture Broker

    A View from the Smithsonian

    par Richard Kurin ...
    Is culture brokered like stocks, real estate, or marriage? In this engaging book, Richard Kurin shows that cultures are also mediated and indeed brokered by countries, organizations, communities, and individuals -- all with their own vision of the truth and varying abilities to impose it on others. Drawing on his diverse experiences in producing exhibitions and public programs, Kurin challenges ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

  • Making Museums Matter

    par Stephen Weil ...
    In this volume of 29 essays, Weil's overarching concern is that museums be able to “earn their keep”—that they make themselves matter—in an environment of potentially shrinking resources. Also included in this collection are reflections on the special qualities of art museums, an investigation into the relationship of current copyright law to the visual arts, a detailed consideration of how the ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Curator's Handbook: Museums, Commercial Galleries, Independent Spaces

    par Adrian George ...
    A step-by-step guide to every aspect of putting on an art exhibition, with tips from a range of influential curators.The Curator’s Handbook is the essential handbook for curators and curatorial students, mapping every stage of the process of putting on an exhibition, no matter how traditional the venue, from initial idea to final installation.An introduction explores curatorial work from its ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Conservation Concerns

    A Guide for Collectors and Curators

    Written in accessible, nontechnical language, this book's twenty-three essays provide invaluable conservation guidelines for a variety of materials and media. Focusing also on proper storage techniques and environmental control, contributors offer information on emergency planning, disaster management, and identifying damages that may require professional treatment. ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Engaging Museum

    Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement

    par Graham Black ...
    Collections series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to front-of-house management, interpretive approach and qualitative analysis afterwards.This holistic ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

  • Museum

    Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    par Danny Danziger ...
    An ?intriguing? oral portrait of the people behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Entertainment Weekly)Using more than fifty interviews, award-winning writer Danny Danziger creates a fascinating mosaic of the people behind New York?s magnificent Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the aristocratic, acerbic director of the museum, Philippe de Montebello, to the curators who have a deep knowledge and ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Museums in a Troubled World

    Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse?

    par Robert R. Janes ...
    Collections series Museum Meanings
    Are Museums Irrelevant?Museums are rarely acknowledged in the global discussion of climate change, environmental degradation, the inevitability of depleted fossil fuels, and the myriad local issues concerning the well-being of particular communities – suggesting the irrelevance of museums as social institutions. At the same time, there is a growing preoccupation among museums with the marketplace, ... En savoir plus

    $100.99 CAD

  • Museums, Heritage and Indigenous Voice

    Decolonizing Engagement

    par Bryony Onciul ...
    Collections series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Current discourse on Indigenous engagement in museum studies is often dominated by curatorial and academic perspectives, in which community voice, viewpoints, and reflections on their collaborations can be under-represented. This book provides a unique look at Indigenous perspectives on museum community engagement and the process of self-representation, specifically how the First Nations Elders of ... En savoir plus

    $81.99 CAD

  • Museums and Education

    Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance

    Collections series Museum Meanings
    At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based on economic rationalism forces museums to review their educational purposes, redesign their pedagogies and account for their performance.The need to theorise learning and ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Doing Museology Differently

    par Duncan Grewcock ...
    Collections series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    One might believe that museum studies is a stable field of academic inquiry based on a set of familiar institutional forms and functions. But as institutions museums have never been stable or singular, and neither has the discipline of museum studies. Museum studies as a field of academic inquiry has received little critical attention. One result of this neglect has arguably been a lack of ... En savoir plus

    $107.99 CAD