05428nam 22010093u 450 991045565300332120210108000113.00-415-22098-X1-134-59889-01-280-07022-60-203-36102-4(CKB)111087026879362(EBL)170673(OCoLC)52984061(SSID)ssj0000308015(PQKBManifestationID)11247351(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000308015(PQKBWorkID)10250486(PQKB)10973071(MiAaPQ)EBC170673(EXLCZ)9911108702687936220151005d2003|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrRe-Imagining the Museum[electronic resource] Beyond the MausoleumFlorence Taylor and Francis20031 online resource (209 p.)Museum MeaningsDescription based upon print version of record.0-203-37778-8 ""Re-Imagining the Museum Beyond the Mausoleum""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of figures""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Unmasking a different museum: museums and cultural criticism""; ""Close encounters""; ""2 Floating the museum""; ""Anchoring tourism in maritime museums""; ""Sidestepping the rhetoric""; ""The displacement of the citizen?""; ""3 From Batavia to Australia II: negotiating changes in curatorial practices""; ""The origins of the Western Australian Maritime Museum""; ""Implications for the curatorial culture at the Museum""; ""Conclusions""""4 �A place for all of us�? Museums and communities""""�A place for all of us�?""; ""Teaching �civic reform�: the uses of community galleries""; ""Representation versus production""; ""The role of history and its impact on the curatorial process""; ""Community versus museum: empiricism versus abstraction""; ""Dialogue and cultural policy""; ""Where to now?""; ""5 Beyond the mausoleum: museums and the media""; ""Materialism and the temple as a treasure house""; ""Objects and power""; ""From treasure house to touch screens: the displacement of the object""""Modernity, popular culture and journalism""""The museum and the popular press: an Assyrian tale""; ""Tales of Paris""; ""�A museum for the global village�""; ""Media impacts""; ""6 Interactivity in museums: the politics of narrative style""; ""Interactivity and museums""; ""Technological interactivity and its limitations: the Museum of Tolerance""; ""�Spatial� interactivity at the Australian National Maritime Museum""; ""Narrative as a design issue""; ""Understanding serial narratives: a media approach""; ""The politics of serial narratives in museums""""Serial narratives and history genres""""Dialogic interactivity at the Museum of Sydney""; ""A little history""; ""Creating dialogue""; ""Beyond the Museum of Sydney""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""Re-Imagining the Museum presents new interpretations of museum history and contemporary museum practices. Through a range of case studies from the UK, North America and Australia, Andrea Witcomb moves away from the idea that museums are always 'conservative' to suggest they have a long history of engaging with popular culture and addressing a variety of audiences. She argues that museums are key mediators between high and popular culture and between government, media practitioners, cultural policy-makers and museums professionals. Analyzing links between museums and the media, looking at the rMuseum MeaningsAustraliaCultural policyHistoriographyHistoryMass media and cultureMuseum exhibitsMuseum techniquesMuseumsMuseumsPhilosophyUnited StatesMuseumsHistoryGreat BritainMuseumsHistoryAustraliaMuseumsHistoryMuseum exhibitsHistoriographyMuseum techniquesHistoriographyCultural policyHistoryMass media and cultureHistoryPopular cultureHistoryMuseum PublicationsHILCCGeneralHILCCElectronic books.Australia.Cultural policy.Historiography.History.Mass media and culture.Museum exhibits.Museum techniques.Museums.MuseumsPhilosophyMuseumsHistoryMuseumsHistoryMuseumsHistoryMuseum exhibitsHistoriographyMuseum techniquesHistoriographyCultural policyHistoryMass media and cultureHistoryPopular cultureHistoryMuseum PublicationsGeneral069Witcomb Andrea984079AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910455653003321Re-Imagining the Museum2247296UNINA