Science Museums
Museums and their Communities
Using case studies drawn from all areas of museum studies: history, anthropology and archaeology, Museums and their Communities explores the museums as a site of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community.
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Museum Management
Museums and galleries in the 1990s face unprecedented changes and challenges. Cuts in public funding have pushed museums into the marketplace, where they must compete for visitors, market their "product" and generate their own income and sponsorship.
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Learning in the Museum
Learning in the Museum begins with a brief history of education in public museums, and a rigorous examination of how the educational theories of Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky and subsequent theorists relate to learning in the museum.
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Museums, Society, Inequality
Museums, Society, Inequality explores the wide-ranging social roles and responsibilities of the museum.
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Museum Texts
Answering key questions in the study of how museums communicate, Louise Ravelli provides a set of frameworks to investigate the complexities of communication in museums:* What is an appropriate level of complexity for a written label?
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Museums After Modernism
"Museums After Modernism" is a unique collection that showcases the ways questions about the museum go to the heart of contemporary debates about the production, consumption and distribution of art.
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