Museums and Memory
Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between memory and…
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Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between memory and history. The essays in this volume consider museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars.Representing a variety of fields--history, anthropology, art history, and museum scholarship--the contributors discuss museums across disciplinary boundaries that have separated art museums from natural history museums or local history museums from national galleries. The essays range widely over time (from the Renaissance to the second half of the twentieth century), and place (China, Japan, the United States, and Germany), in exhibitions explored (photography, Native American history, and "Jurassic technology"), and
Museums and Memory
Folklife and Museums
Feminism and Museums
Feminism and Museums
Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Museums and Social Change
Museums and Sites of Persuasion
Memory and Survival
Museums and Well-being Cull Rose
Learning and Memory
Memory and Aging