04870nam 2200769Ia 450 991082334580332120200520144314.00-415-22098-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)9911108702687936220020709d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRe-imagining the museum beyond the mausoleum /Andrea WitcombLondon ;New York Routledge20031 online resource (x, 198 pages) illustrationsMuseum meaningsDescription based upon print version of record.0-203-37778-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-185) and index.""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 usa?? Museums and communities""""a?A place for all of usa??""; ""Teaching a?civic reforma?: 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 meanings.MuseumsPhilosophyMuseumsUnited StatesHistoryMuseumsGreat BritainHistoryMuseumsAustraliaHistoryMuseum exhibitsHistoriographyMuseum techniquesHistoriographyCultural policyHistoryMass media and cultureHistoryPopular cultureHistoryMuseumsPhilosophy.MuseumsHistory.MuseumsHistory.MuseumsHistory.Museum exhibitsHistoriography.Museum techniquesHistoriography.Cultural policyHistory.Mass media and cultureHistory.Popular cultureHistory.069Witcomb Andrea1965-0MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823345803321Re-imagining the museum3955524UNINA