250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the last decade, museums all around the world have been reinventing themselves. They are now much more than scholarly, cultural archives. A remit to reach out to a broader public, the increasing politicization of the ownership and curation of objects, the architectural expectations of new buildings, the requirements of the "event exhibit"...all have changed the way any new museum is built,... Read more
Introduction: Shifting Organisations, Knowledges and Effects 1. Theorising New Museums, Language and Politics 2. The Shock of the New: Unity and the Modern Museum 3. History in the Making: Spectacles of Empire, Currencies of Newness, Consumption and Citizenship 4. Culture in the Making: Public Spheres and Political Urgency5. Contested Sites of Identity and the Cult of the New6. Diversity and Changing Models: From New Museum to Cultural CentreConclusion: Cultural Reconstruction
Biography
Kylie Message is ARC Special Research Centre Research Fellow and Convener of the Museums and Collections graduate program at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, the Australian National University.
Through her thorough and inquisitive research, Message is encouraging us to step back and analyse what these new museums are truly accomplishing, inspiring us to take the initiative to work through the rhetoric and develop museum practice that is truly inclusive and representative of our multicultural communities. - Christa Lohman, Journal of Museum Ethnography
