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Title

Making a museum in the 21st century / edited by Melissa Chiu.

Publication

• New York, NY : Asia Society Museum, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

Chiu, Melissa

Description

160 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Making a museum in the 21st Century is an essential overview of pressing issues faced by museums around the world in a new era of audience engagement. This book contains essays from luminaries in the field along with selected transcriptions from the 2013 inaugural Asia Society Arts & Museum Summit. The perspectives of prominent museum leaders, directors, and curators are presented alongside those of top architects and artists as they tackle questions about the form and function of a museum in the 21st century."--Back cover.

Subject

• Museums
• Museums > Management

Note

• Published following the 2013 Arts & Museum Summit organized by Asia Society Museum in the Hong Kong, November 21-22, 2013. -- verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: making a museum in the 21st century -- Keynote -- Museums of the future: an artist's perspective -- Museum architecture: a conversation with David Adjaye -- Making a museum in the 21st century: a conversation -- The museum in the world: a conversation -- Used tires and the art museum -- Curating neighborhoods in a post-ethnographic museum -- Shrine of knowledge, palace of aesthetics, or theater of history: museum design in China -- Museums are not for posterity: the making and (un)making of museums in the 21st century -- Scratching on things I could disavow: views from inner to outer compartments.

ISBN

• 0692277633
• 9780692277638

OCLC

• ocn904998283
• 904998283
• SCSB-9625007

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries