A Companion to Museum Studies (Blackwell Companions in by Sharon Macdonald

By Sharon Macdonald

A better half to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary method of the research of the advance, roles, and value of museums in modern society.

  • Collects high-quality unique essays via prime figures from various disciplines and theoretical stances, together with anthropology, paintings background, heritage, literature, sociology, cultural stories, and museum studies
  • Examines the complexity of the museum from cultural, political, curatorial, old and representational perspectives
  • Covers conventional topics, comparable to area, exhibit, constructions, gadgets and gathering, and extra modern demanding situations comparable to traveling, trade, neighborhood and experimental exhibition forms

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