Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction : interpreting museums
  • 2. Negotiating the new urban environment
  • 3. The public museum in the nineteenth century
  • 4. The social characteristics of municipal museums
  • 5. Reading the objects
  • 6. Decoding the displays and layout
  • 7. Consuming the museum : museum visitors
  • 8. Conclusion.