| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
An architect's view of recent developments in European museums / Ian Ritchie -- Some general thoughts on corporate museum identity : the case of the Villa Arson, Nice / Ruedi Baur, Pippo Lionni and Christian Bernard -- Aims, strengths and weaknesses of the European science centre movement / Melanie Quin -- The debate on heritage reviewed / Robert Lumley -- Visitor studies in Germany : methods and examples / Bernhard Graf -- Families in museums / Paulette M. McManus -- Travelling exhibits : the Swedish experience / Jan Hjorth -- 'Why are you playing at washing up again?' Some reasons and methods for developing exhibitions for children / Gillian Thomas -- Museum education : past, present and future / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- The rhetoric of display / Peter Vergo -- The medium is the museum : on objects and logics in times and spaces / Roger Silverstone -- Some processes particular to the scientific exhibition / Bernard Schiele and Louise Boucher -- The identity crisis of natural history museum at the end of the twentieth century / Pere Alberch. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
An authoritative collection of essays on European museums struggling to adapt in a changing world. Includes discussions on all types of museums, as well as the role of the museum as educator and communicator. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Museums -- Europe.
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Museums. |
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Europe. |
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Europe -- Cultural policy.
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Cultural policy. |
| Indexed Term |
Museums |
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Europe |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Miles, Roger S.
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Zavala, Lauro.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Towards the museum of the future. London ; New York : Routledge, 1994 0415094984 (DLC) 93012788 (OCoLC)27810445 |
| ISBN |
0585452156 (electronic book) |
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9780585452159 (electronic book) |
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0203083083 (electronic book) |
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9780203083086 (electronic book) |
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9780415094986 (acid-free paper) |
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0415094984 (acid-free paper) |
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0415094984 (acid-free paper) |
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