Museums and Truth.

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Museums are usually seen as arenas for the authorised presentations of reality, based on serious, professional knowledge. Yet, in spite of the impossibility of giving anything but a highly abstract and extremely selective impression in an exhibition, very few museums problematize this or discuss the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Golding, Viv
Other Authors: Rekdal, Per B., Fromm, Annette B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Subjects:
Museums > Philosophy.
Art museums > History.
Musées > Philosophie.
Museology & heritage studies.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Social & cultural history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Museum Administration & Museology.
REFERENCE > General.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
Art museums
Museums > Philosophy
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: TRUTHS, FAITHS AND REALITIES; CHAPTER ONE; PART TWO: MUSEUMS AND 'DIFFICULT' HERITAGE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART THREE: COPING WITH OLD REALITIES IN NEW SETTINGS; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART FOUR: EMERGING POSTNORMALITY IN MUSEUMS?; CHAPTER TEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

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