"A Companion to Museum Studies" captures a fresh, multi-disciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. Expanding museum studies and presenting a wide range of theoretical perspectives, the volume brings together authoritative original essays by leading figures from various disciplines, including anthropology, art history, history, literature, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as museum studies. The book examines the complexity of the museum from cultural, political governance, curatorial, historical, and representational perspectives. From traditional subjects, including space, display, buildings, and collecting, to more contemporary challenges and concerns, such as visiting, commerce, community, and experimental exhibition forms, this Companion proves itself an indispensable reference for art historians, museum curators, and art and culture lovers.
1. Expanding museum studies: an introduction by Sharon Macdonald.
2. Cultural theory and museum studies by Rhiannon Mason.
3. Sociology and the social aspects of museums by Gordon Fyfe.
4. Art history and museology : rendering the visible legible by Donald Preziosi.
5. Museums and anthropologies : practices and narratives by Anthony Alan Shelton.
6. Collecting practices by Sharon Macdonald.
7. The conundrum of ephemerality : time, memory, and museums by Susan A. Crane.
8. The origins of the public museum by Jeffrey Abt.
9. World fairs and museums by Robert W. Rydell.
10. Making and remaking national identities by Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan.
11. Museums and community by Elizabeth Crooke.
12. Re-staging histories and identities by Rosmarie Beier-de Haan.
13. Heritage by Steven Hoelscher.
14. Museum architecture: a brief history by Michaela Giebelhausen.
15. Insight versus entertainment : untimely meditations on the architecture of twentieth-century art museums by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani.
16. Civic seeing: museums and the organization of vision by Tony Bennett.
17. Space syntax: the language of museum space by Bill Hillier and Kali Tzortzi.
18. New media by Michelle Henning.
19. Living in a learning society : museums and free-choice learning by John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking and Marianna Adams.
20. Museum education by George E. Hein.
21. Interactivity : thinking beyond by Andrea Witcomb.
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