Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections and Collaborations

'This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent. Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, it addresses a significant gap in the available literature, exploring some of the complex issues arising from recent approaches to collaboration between museums and their communities.

The book unpacks taken-for-granted notions such as scholarship, community, participation and collaboration, which can gloss over the complexity of identities and lead to tokenistic claims of inclusion by museums. Over sixteen chapters, well-respected authors from the US, Australia and Europe offer a timely critique to address what happens when museums put community-minded principles into practice, challenging readers to move beyond shallow notions of political correctness that ignore vital difference in this contested field. ' - from publisher's website.

With contributors biographies.

Access level

Onsite

practitioner

Petrina FOTI,

Kirstin JAMES

publisher

Bloomsbury (London, United Kingdom)

editor

Viv GOLDING,

Wayne MODEST

Location code

REF.GOV

Language

English

Keyword

museum studies, curatorial practice

Publication/Creation date

2013

No of pages

290

ISBN / ISSN

9780857851314

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction - Viv GOLDING, Wayne MODEST

Part I: Community Matters

Collaborative Museums: Curators, Communities, Collections - Viv GOLDING

The City, Race, and the Creation of a Common History at the Virginia Historical Society - Eric GABLE

Negotiating the Power of Art: Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project and Its Communities - Bradley L. TAYLOR

Learning to Share Knowledge: Collaborative Projects In Taiwan - Marzia VARUTTI

Community Engagement, Curatorial Practice and Museum Ethos in Alberta Canada - Bryony ONCIUL

Co-curating with Teenagers at the Horniman Museum - Wayne MODEST

Part II: Sharing Authority

Museums, Migrant Communities and Intercultural Dialogue in Italy - Serena IERVOLINO

Community Consultation and the Redevelopment of Manchester Museum's Ancient Egypt Galleries - Karen EXELL

'Shared Authority': Collaboration, Curatorial Voice and Exhibition Design in Canberra, Australia - Mary HUTCHISON

One Voice to Many Voices? Displaying Polyvocality in an Art Gallery - Rhiannon MASON, Christopher WHITEHEAD, Helen GRAHAM

A Question of Trust: Addressing Historical Injustices with Romani People - Ashild Andrea BREKKE

Part III: Audiences and Diversity

Creolising the Museum: Humour, Art and Young Audiences - Viv GOLDING

Museums and Civic Engagement: Children Making a Difference - Elizabeth WOOD

Community Consultation in the Museum: The 2007 Bicentenary of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade - Kalliopi FOUSEKI, Laurajane SMITH

Interpreting the Shared Past Within the World Heritage Site of Goreme, Cappadocia, Turkey - Elizabeth CARNEGIE, Hazel TUCKER

Testimony, Memory, and Art at the Jewish Holocaust Museum, Melbourne, Australia - Andrea WITCOMB

Afterword: A View from the Bridge in Conversation with Susan Pearce

Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections and Collaborations

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