Science Museums
Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States
Best known for the distinctive style of his dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History adn other museums, Francis Lee Jaques was also a painter and illustrator whose elegant black-and-white drawings appeared in over 30 books about wildlife adn nature.
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Museums and Community
Combining research that stretches across all of the social sciences and international case studies, Elizabeth Crooke here explores the dynamics of the relationship between the community and the museum.
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Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge
Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time when funding is becoming increasingly scarce, difficult questions are being asked about the justification of museums.
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Museums and Education
At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts.
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Museums, Media and Cultural Theory
Museums can work to reproduce ideologies and confirm the existing order of things, or as instruments of social reform. Yet objects in museums can exceed their designated roles as documents or specimens.
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Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference
How, if it all, do museums shape the ways in which society understands difference?
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