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Making histories in museums /

This exciting new series recognizes the tremendous potential of museum-based histories and the ways in which they can engage people with ideas about the past. People encounter and use museums on many different levels - personal, social and intellectual - and access meanings that best fit their agend...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kavanagh, Gaynor
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 1996.
Series:Making histories in museums.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This exciting new series recognizes the tremendous potential of museum-based histories and the ways in which they can engage people with ideas about the past. People encounter and use museums on many different levels - personal, social and intellectual - and access meanings that best fit their agendas. Histories in museums can stimulate the imagination, provoke discussion and increase our ability to question what we know. From this it can be deduced that history in museums is as much about the present as it is about the past; as much about how we feel as about what we know; as much about who w.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780826430724
0826430724
9780826479266
082647926X