Re-imagining the museum : beyond the mausoleum / / Andrea Witcomb

• Autore: Witcomb Andrea <1965-.>
• Pubblicazione: London, : Taylor and Francis, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 069
• Soggetto topico: Australia; Cultural policy; Historiography; History; Mass media and culture; Museum exhibits; Museum techniques; Museums; Museums - Philosophy - United States; Museums - History - Great Britain; Museums - History - Australia; Museums - History; Museum exhibits - Historiography; Museum techniques - Historiography; Cultural policy - History; Mass media and culture - History; Popular culture - History; Museum Publications; General
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""; ""â€?A museum for the global villageâ€?""; ""Media impacts""; ""6 Interactivity in museums: the politics of narrative style""; ""Interactivity and museums""; ""Technological interactivity and its limitations: the Museum of Tolerance""; ""â€?Spatialâ€? 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 r
• Titolo autorizzato: Re-imagining the museum
• ISBN: 0-415-22098-X; 1-134-59889-0; 1-280-07022-6; 0-203-36102-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780106903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Museum Meanings