1st Edition

Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference

By Richard Sandell Copyright 2007
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

How, if it all, do museums shape the ways in which society understands difference? In recent decades there has been growing international interest amongst practitioners, academics and policy makers in the role that museums might play in confronting prejudice and promoting human rights and cross-cultural understanding. Museums in many parts of the world are increasingly concerned to construct... Read more

1. Museums and the Good Society  2. On Prejudice and Difference  3. The Visitor-Exhibition Encounter: Rethinking Media-Audience Agency  4. Museums and the Mediascape  5. Revealing Hidden Histories and Displaying Difference  6. Museums and Social Responsibility

Biography

Richard Sandell