Book Series
Museum Meanings
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Re-Imagining the Museum
Beyond the Mausoleum
Re-Imagining the Museum presents new interpretations of museum history and contemporary museum practices.
Through a range of case studies from the UK, North America and…
read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22099-6 (Routledge)
Museums, Society, Inequality
Museums, Society, Inequality explores the wide-ranging social roles and responsibilities of the museum.
It brings together international perspectives to stimulate critical debate, inform the work…
read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26060-2 (Routledge)
Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture
This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention…
read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-08633-2 (Routledge)
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Museum, Media, Message
Collecting together a group of talented writers, Museum, Media, Message considers, in depth, the most up-to-date approaches to museum communication including: museums as media; museums…
read more1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19828-8 (Routledge)
Learning in the Museum
Learning in the Museum examines major issues and shows how research in visitor studies and the philosophy of education can be applied to facilitate a…
read more1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-09776-5 (Routledge)
Colonialism and the Object
Empire, Material Culture and the Museum
Drawing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, Colonialism and the Object explores the impact of colonial contact…
read more1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-15776-6 (Routledge)
Series Details:
Museum Meanings analyses and explores the relationships between museums and their publics. 'Museums' are understood very broadly, to include art galleries, historic sites and historic houses. 'Relationships with publics' is also understood very broadly, including interactions with artefacts, exhibitions and architecture, which may be analysed from a range of theoretical perspectives. These include material culture studies, mass communication and media studies, learning theories and cultural studies. The analysis of the relationship of the museum to its publics shifts the emphasis from the museum as text, to studies grounded in the relationships of bodies and sites, identities and communities.