Museum Theory
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Museum Theory

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Museum Theory

About this book

MUSEUM THEORY EDITED BY ANDREA WITCOMB AND KYLIE MESSAGE

Museum 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.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781119642084
eBook ISBN
9781119796558
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Museum Administration
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. EDITORS
  7. GENERAL EDITORS
  8. CONTRIBUTORS
  9. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  10. EDITORS’ PREFACE TO MUSEUM THEORY AND THE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOKS OF MUSEUM STUDIES
  11. INTRODUCTION: – MUSEUM THEORY: An Expanded Field
  12. PART I: Thinking about Museums
  13. PART II: Disciplines and Politics
  14. PART III: Theory from Practice/Practicing Theory
  15. Index
  16. End User License Agreement