Making Histories in Museums
About this book
This exciting new series recognizes the tremendous potential of museum-based histories and the ways in which they can engage people with ideas about the past. People encounter and use museums on many different levels - personal, social and intellectual - and access meanings that best fit their agendas. Histories in museums can stimulate the imagination, provoke discussion and increase our ability to question what we know. From this it can be deduced that history in museums is as much about the present as it is about the past; as much about how we feel as about what we know; as much about who we are as about who we have been. The first volume in the series, Making Histories in Museums, examines museological features, but deals particularly with hte historiographical issues that have presiously been underplayed. Each contributor looks at theoretical frameworks within a specific field of study, using case studies and comparisons of practice. Good practice is highlighted and potential ways forward explored. The book establishes the themes that will be the subject of more detailed study in later volumes. This series will prove an invaluable resource for all those concerned with or interested in museums - museum professionals, museum students, historians and students of history, as well as the general reader.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Making Histories, Making Memories
- 2 Time Heals: Making History in Medical Museums
- 3 Making Rural Histories
- 4 Why Not Invent the Past We Display in Museums?
- 5 Trying To Be an Honest Woman: Making Women's Histories
- 6 Making Family Histories in the National Portrait Gallery, Australia
- 7 African Americans, History and Museums: Preserving African American History in the Public Arena
- 8 Making Histories of African Caribbeans
- 9 Cleaning Up the Coal-Face and Doing Out the Kitchen: The Interpretation of Work and Workers in Wales
- 10 Hard Men, Hard Facts and Heavy Metal: Making Histories of Technology
- 11 Making City Histories
- 12 Travellers' Boots, Body-Moulding, Rubber Fetish Clothes: Making Histories of Sub-cultures
- 13 Making Histories of Wars
- 14 Making Histories of Sexuality
- 15 Making Culturally Diverse Histories
- 16 Making Histories of Religion
- 17 Making Histories from Archaeology
- 18 History and Folklore
- 19 Making the History Curriculum
- 20 Shadows and Sacred Geography: First Nations History-Making from an Alberta Perspective
- 21 Making Children's Histories
- Index