New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction

'New Museum Theory and Practice is an original collection of essays with a unique focus: the contested politics and ideologies of museum practice. This lively introduction, comprised of essays authored by curators, archivists, scholars, teachers, and conservators from around the world - including the Tate, the Smithsonian, and the Experience Music Project -and from all levels of museum studies, examines the incendiary issues currently raging in the field.' - excerpt from back cover

Each essay is accompanied by an editor's introduction and questions for discussion. Bibliography is also provided.

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Blackwell Publishing (Malden, United States)

editor

Janet MARSTINE

Location code

REF.MAJ5

Language

English

Keyword

museum studies

Publication/Creation date

2013

No of pages

331

ISBN / ISSN

9781405105590

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Part I Defining New Museum Theory

A Survey and Groundwork

The Architecture is the Museum - Michaela GIEBELHAUSEN

Feminist Curatorial Strategies and Practices Since the 1970s

- Katy DEEPWELL

New Art, New Challenges: The Changing Face of Conservation in the Twenty-first Century

- Rachel BARKER, Patricia SMITHEN

B Case Studies in Contemporary Practice

How We Study History Museums: Or Cultural Studies at Monticello

- Eric GABLE

Spectacle and Democracy: Experience Music Project as a Post-museum - Chris BRUCE

Revealing and Concealing: Museums, Objects, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia - Moria G. SIMPSON

Restructureing South African Museums: Reality and Rhetoric within Cape Town - Julie L. MCGEE

Part II Looking to the Future: Theory into Practice

The Critical Museum Visitor - Margaret LINDAUER

Visiting the Virtual Museum: Art and Experience Online - Lianne MCTAVISH

Reframing Studio Art Production and Critique - Helen KLEBESADEL

The University Museum and Gallery: A Site for Institutional Critique and a Focus of the Curriculum

- Lyndel KING, Janet MARSTINE

Museum Archives as Resources for Scholarly Research and Institutional Identity - Lois Marie FINK

New Museum Theory and Practice: an Introduction

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