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Fragments of the world : uses of museum collections /
During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum collections as a whole are enormous in size and quantity and the question of how can they can be put to best use is ever present. When conventio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego ; Oxford : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann,
Elsevier Science and Technology Books ;
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum collections as a whole are enormous in size and quantity and the question of how can they can be put to best use is ever present. When conventional exhibitions can only ever utilise a tiny proportion of them, what other uses of the collections are possible? Will their exploitation and use now destroy their value for future generations? Should they simply be kept safely and as economically as possible as a resource for the future?<BR id=""CR. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |