Towards the museum of the future [[electronic resource] ] : new European perspectives / / edited by Roger Miles and Lauro Zavala

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450564603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994
• ISBN: 0-585-45215-6; 1-280-32904-1; 1-134-86762-X; 9786610329045; 0-203-08308-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
• Altri autori (Persone): MilesRoger S; ZavalaLauro
• Disciplina: 069/.094
• Soggetti: Museums - Europe; Electronic books.; Europe Cultural policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Towards the Museum of the Future; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Photographic acknowledgements; Introduction: Roger Miles; Part 1: New worlds; 1. An architect's view of recent developments in European museums: Ian Ritchie; 2. Some general thoughts on corporate museum identity: the case of the Villa Arson; Nice Ruedi Baur, Pippo Lionni and Christian Bernard; 3. Aims, strengths and weaknesses of the European science centre movement: Melanie Quin; 4. The debate on heritage reviewed: Robert Lumley; Part 2: New services; 5. Visitor studies in Germany: methods and examples: Bernhard Graf 6. Families in museums: Paulette M. McManus; 7. Travelling exhibits: the Swedish experience: Jan Hjorth; 8. 'Why are you playing at washing up again?' Some reasons and methods for developing exhibitions for children: Gillian Thomas; 9. Museum education: past, present and future: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill; Part 3: New analyses; 10. The rhetoric of display: Peter Vergo; 11. The medium is the museum: on objects and ; logics in times and spaces: Roger Silverstone; 12. Some processes particular to the scientific exhibition: Bernard Schiele and Louise Boucher 13. The identity crisis of natural history museums at the end of the twentieth century: Pere Alberch; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Towards the Museum of the Future explores, through a series of authoritative essays, some of the major developments in European museums as they struggle to adapt in a rapidly changing world. It embraces a wide range of European countries, all types of museums and exhibitions and the needs of different museum audiences, and discusses the museum as communicator and educator in the context of current cultural concerns.