Do museums still need objects?

Do museums still need objects? /

Conn ranges across a wide variety of museum types--from art and anthropology to science and commercial museums--asking questions about the relationship between museums and knowledge, about the connection between culture and politics, about the role of museums in representing non-Western societies, a...

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Main Author: Conn, Steven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
Series:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
Subjects:
Museums > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Museums > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Art objects > United States > History > 20th century.
Cultural property > United States > History > 20th century.
Museums > Collection management > United States > History > 20th century.
Museum exhibits > United States > History > 20th century.
Museums > United States > History > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Thinking about museums
  • Do museums still need objects?
  • Whose objects? Whose culture? The contexts of repatriation
  • Where is the East?
  • Where have all the grown-ups gone?
  • The birth and the death of a museum
  • Museums, public space, and civic identity.

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