Research Catalog

Title

Challenge and transformation : museums in Cape Town and Sydney / Katherine J. Goodnow ; with Jack Lohman & Jatti Bredekamp.

Author

Goodnow, Katherine J.

Publication

Paris : UNESCO, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lohman, Jack.
• Bredekamp, Jatti.
• Unesco.

Description

221 pages : color illustrations; 27 cm.

Summary

This publication looks at how change takes place in museums. Built around a series of case studies outlining the way ethnographic museums, historic sites and art galleries come to terms with issues of diversity and change, this book represents an initial publication devoted to exploring diversity and promoting intercultural dialogue in museum practice.--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Museums and diversity

Uniform Title

Museums and diversity

Subject

• Museums > South Africa > Cape Town
• Museums > Australia > Sydney (N.S.W.)
• Museums and minorities > South Africa > Cape Town
• Museums and minorities > Australia > Sydney (N.S.W.)
• 02.30 museology
• Museums
• Museums and minorities
• Museum
• Musea
• New South Wales > Sydney
• South Africa > Cape Town
• Australien
• Kapstadt
• Sydney
• Südafrika Kontinent
• Zuid-Afrika
• Australië

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-221).

Contents

Museums in Cape Town and Sydney. Introductiona nd overview -- Across museums : shared forms of challenge and change -- Ethnographic collections in natural history museums : the South African Museum -- Sydney's Australian Museum and its Indigenous Australians gallery -- Historic sites : Cape Town -- The Museum of Sydney : on the site of the first government house -- The South African National Gallery -- The Yiribana Gallery : Sydney -- Future steps / Kathering Goodnow.

ISBN

• 9232028166
• 9789232028167

OCLC

• ocm71799897
• 71799897
• SCSB-1401874

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library