Research Catalog

Title

Museums and communities : curators, collections and collaboration / edited by Viv Golding and Wayne Modest.

Publication

London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Golding, Vivien.
• Modest, Wayne.

Description

xvi, 290 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Subject

• Museums > Social aspects
• Community life
• Museum curators
• Museums > Collection management
• Cooperation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Viv Golding -- Part I. Community matters? -- Collaborative museums : curators, communities, collections / Viv Golding -- The city, race, and the creation of a common history at the Virginia Historical Society / Eric Gable -- Negotiating the power of art : Tyree Guyton and Detroit communities / Bradley L. Taylor -- Learning to share knowledge : collaborative projects in Taiwan / Marzia Varutti -- Community engagement, curatorial practice and museum ethos in Alberta, Canada / Bryony Onciul -- Co-curating with teenagers at the Horniman Museum / Wayne Modest -- Part II. Sharing authority? -- Museums, migrant communities and intercultural dialogue in Italy / Serena Iervolino -- Community consultation and the redevelopment of Manchester Museum's ancient Egypt galleries / Karen Exell -- "Shared authority" : collaboration, curatorial voice and exhibition design in Canberra, Australia / Mary Hutchison -- One voice to many voices? : displaying polyvocality in an art gallery / Rhiannon Mason, Chris Whitehead and Helen Graham -- A question of trust : addressing historical injustices with Romani-people / Åshild Andrea Brekke -- Part III. Audiences and social justice? Audience experiences? -- Creolising the museum : humour, art and young audiences / Viv Golding -- Museums and civic engagement : children making a difference / Elizabeth Wood -- Community consultation in the museum : the 2007 bicentenary of Britain's abolition of the slave trade / Kalliopi Fouseki and Laurajane Smith -- Interpreting the shared past within the world heritage site of Göreme, Cappadocia, Turkey / Elizabeth Carnegie and Hazel Tucker -- Testimony, memory and art at the Jewish Holocaust Museum, Melbourne, Australia / Andrea Witcomb -- Afterword: A view from the bridge : in conversation with Susan Pearce / Kirstin James, Petrina Foti and the editors.

ISBN

• 9780857851307 (hardback)
• 0857851306 (hardback)
• 9780857851314 (paperback)
• 0857851314 (paperback)
• 9780857851321 (PDF)
• 0857851322 (PDF)
• 9780857851338 (ebook)
• 0857851330 (ebook)

LCCN

• 2012042523
• 99953276259

OCLC

• ocn818327321
• 818327321
• SCSB-9624911

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries