244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time, when funding is becoming increasingly scarce, difficult questions are being asked about the justification of museums. Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge presents a critical survey of major changes in current assumptions about the nature of... Read more
Chapter 1 What is a museum?; Chapter 2 The first museum of Europe?; Chapter 3 The palace of the prince; Chapter 4 The irrational cabinet; Chapter 5 The ‘cabinet of the world’; Chapter 6 The Repository of the Royal Society; Chapter 7 The disciplinary museum; Chapter 8 A useful past for the present;
Biography
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill is Lecturer in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
