A companion to museum studies

A Companion to Museum Studies......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
List of Illustrations......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 21
Bibliographical Note......Page 22
1 Expanding Museum Studies: An Introduction......Page 23
Part I Perspectives, Disciplines, Concepts......Page 35
Introduction......Page 36
2 Cultural Theory and Museum Studies......Page 39
3 Sociology and the Social Aspects of Museums......Page 55
4 Art History and Museology: Rendering the Visible Legible......Page 72
5 Museums and Anthropologies: Practices and Narratives......Page 86
6 Collecting Practices......Page 103
7 The Conundrum of Ephemerality: Time, Memory, and Museums......Page 120
Part II Histories, Heritage, Identities......Page 133
Introduction......Page 134
8 The Origins of the Public Museum......Page 137
9 World Fairs and Museums......Page 157
10 Making and Remaking National Identities......Page 174
11 Museums and Community......Page 192
12 Re-staging Histories and Identities......Page 208
13 Heritage......Page 220
Part III: Architecture, Space, Media......Page 241
Introduction......Page 242
14 Museum Architecture: A Brief History......Page 245
15 Insight versus Entertainment: Untimely Meditations on the Architecture of Twentieth-century Art Museums......Page 267
16 Civic Seeing: Museums and the Organization of Vision......Page 285
17 Space Syntax: The Language of Museum Space......Page 304
18 New Media......Page 324
Part IV  Visitors, Learning, Interacting......Page 341
Introduction......Page 342
19 Living in a Learning Society: Museums and Free-choice Learning......Page 345
20 Museum Education......Page 362
21 Interactivity: Thinking Beyond......Page 375
22 Studying Visitors......Page 384
Part V Globalization, Profession, Practice......Page 399
Introduction......Page 400
23 Globalization: Incorporating the Museum......Page 403
24 Cultural Economics......Page 420
25 The Museum Profession......Page 437
26 Museum Ethics......Page 453
27 Museum Practice: Legal Issues......Page 464
28 Non-Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural Perspective......Page 479
Part VI Culture Wars, Transformations, Futures......Page 495
Introduction......Page 496
29 Incivilities in Civil(-ized) Places: “Culture Wars” in Comparative Perspective......Page 499
30 Science Museums and the Culture Wars......Page 516
31 Postmodern Restructurings......Page 531
32 Exposing the Public......Page 547
33 The Future of the Museum......Page 565
Index......Page 577