Museum Theory

Museum Theory
Kylie Message, Andrea Witcomb
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20 Feb 2020 US
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9781119642084
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MUSEUM THEORY EDITED BY ANDREA WITCOMB AND KYLIE MESSAGEMuseum Theory offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and intellectual traditions. This volume describes and challenges previous ways of understanding museums and their relationship to society. Essays written by scholars from museology and other disciplines address theoretical reflexivity in the museum, exploring the contextual, theoretical, and pragmatic ways museums work, are understood, and are experienced.Organized around three themes-Thinking about Museums, Disciplines and Politics, and Theory from Practice/Practicing Theory-the text includes discussion and analysis of different kinds of museums from various, primarily contemporary, national and local contexts. Essays consider subjects including the nature of museums as institutions and their role in the public sphere, cutting-edge museum practice and their connections with current global concerns, and the links between museum studies and disciplines such as cultural studies, anthropology, and history.
ANDREA WITCOMB is Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University and Deputy Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Victoria, Australia. She brings an interdisciplinary approach to her research, locating her work at the intersection of history, museology, and cultural studies.KYLIE MESSAGE is Professor of Public Humanities in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Her research examines the relationships between cultural organizations, citizenship, government, and political reform movements.
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ISBN-13: 9781119642084
Published: 20 Feb 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Format: Paperback
Height: 242mm
Width: 170mm
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 1128g
Pages: 632

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