What Are Museums For?
eBook - ePub

What Are Museums For?

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

What Are Museums For?

About this book

The days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are over. Museums today are a cultural battleground. Who should decide what is put on display and how it is presented? Who gets to set the narrative?

In this passionately argued book, Jon Sleigh maintains that museums must be for all people and inclusion must be at the heart of everything they do. But what does good inclusion look like in practice? Cleverly structured like a museum tour, Sleigh uses seven illustrative museum objects from seven very different museums to explore such wide-ranging issues as trust-building, representation, digital access, conflicting narratives, removal from display and restitution.

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Publisher
Bristol University Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781529231403
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Museum Studies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. About the Autor
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1 Introduction: The Emotional Museum Encounter
  11. 2 The Classical Museum
  12. 3 The Museum in Service of Others
  13. 4 The Digital Museum
  14. 5 The Museum and Trust
  15. 6 The Queer Museum
  16. 7 The Changing Museum
  17. 8 The Future Museum?
  18. Notes
  19. Further Reading

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