1st Edition

Museum Provision and Professionalism

Edited By Gaynor Kavanagh Copyright 1995
380 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge

Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety and contradiction. They can be places of great excitement and great boredom, sharply insightful and hopelessly bland. Museums are anything that the political climate and the imagination allows them to be. No two museums are the same. The papers which make up this volume give ample... Read more
List of figures, List of tables, Series preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part 1 The museum: some definitions, Part 2 Thinking about museums, Part 3 Museums UK, Part 4 The museums profession, Part 5 Professionalism, Part 6 Codes of ethical conduct, Part 7 Institutional standards, Further reading, Index

Biography

Gaynor Kavanagh