Research Catalog

Title

Behind the scenes at the Science Museum / Sharon MacDonald.

Author

Macdonald, Sharon

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2002.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xiii, 293 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Behind the scenes at the Science Museum tracks the history of a particular exhibition at the Science Museum in London and takes the reader into the world of the museum curator, showing how exhibitions are created and how public culture is produced.

Series Statement

Materializing culture, 1460-3349

Uniform Title

Materializing culture.

Subject

• Museums
• Museums
• Science > London > Exhibitions
• Science > London > Juvenile literature
• Science Museum (Great Britain)
• Science Museum (Great Britain) > Juvenile literature
• Science museums > Educational aspects > London > Juvenile literature
• Science museums > Educational aspects > London

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Juvenile works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-283) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Admission : going in -- Cultural revolution in South Kensington -- A new vision for the 21st century : rewriting the museum -- A hot potato for a new public: a flagship exhibition on food -- Reality sets in : managing and materialising dreams (and negotiating nightmares) -- Virtual consumers and supermarket science -- Opening and aftermath : ritual, reviews and reflection -- The active audience and the politics of appropriation -- Behind and beyond the scenes.

ISBN

• 1859735665 (cloth)
• 1859735711 (paper)

LCCN

^^2001006856

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library