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This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture.
This work explores such questions as:
- How and why is it that museums select and arrange artefacts, shape knowledge, construct a view?
- How do museums produce values?
- How do active audiences make meaning from what they experience in museums?
This stimulating book provokes debate and discussion on these topics and puts forward the idea of a new museum - the post-museum, which will challenge the familiar modernist museum. A must for students and professionals in the field.
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In this book, Hooper-Greenhill focuses on the concept of knowledge, how it is constructed by museums relying on their collections, and how it is received by their visitors.
The contrast the author creates between the modernist museum and the post-modern museum is key throughout the book, with case studies looking at specific artefacts and how they have been inserted into 'master narratives' authored by museum professionals. This contrast relies on the transition from modernism to post-modernism.
Because the book was written in 2000, it is also somewhat speculative, with imagining or recommending what future museums could do, could look like to be as relevant as possible to their environment.
It is a good read, if only to understand how case studies can be written in a museum studies oriented analysis.
1. Culture and meaning in the museum, 1
2. Picturing the ancestors and imag(in)ing the nation: the collections of the first decade of the National Portrait Gallery, London, 23
3. Speaking for herself? Hinemihi and her discourses, 49
4. Words and things: constructing narratives, constructing the self, 76
5. Objects and interpretive processes, 103
6. Exhibitions and interpretation: museum pedagogy and cultural change, 124
7. The rebirth of the museum, 151
Notes, 163
Bibliography, 176
The contrast the author creates between the modernist museum and the post-modern museum is key throughout the book, with case studies looking at specific artefacts and how they have been inserted into 'master narratives' authored by museum professionals. This contrast relies on the transition from modernism to post-modernism.
Because the book was written in 2000, it is also somewhat speculative, with imagining or recommending what future museums could do, could look like to be as relevant as possible to their environment.
It is a good read, if only to understand how case studies can be written in a museum studies oriented analysis.
1. Culture and meaning in the museum, 1
2. Picturing the ancestors and imag(in)ing the nation: the collections of the first decade of the National Portrait Gallery, London, 23
3. Speaking for herself? Hinemihi and her discourses, 49
4. Words and things: constructing narratives, constructing the self, 76
5. Objects and interpretive processes, 103
6. Exhibitions and interpretation: museum pedagogy and cultural change, 124
7. The rebirth of the museum, 151
Notes, 163
Bibliography, 176
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