Voluntary detours : small-town and rural museums in Alberta /

"After visiting hundreds of museums across Alberta, Lianne McTavish chronicles some of the most challenging and unexpected sites where the idea of the museum is being reshaped. The concept of the visit as a "voluntary detour" encapsulates the way visitors travel along backroads to fin...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McTavish, Lianne, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
Series:McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
Subjects:
Small museums > Alberta.
Museums and community > Alberta.
Museum exhibits > Alberta.
Heritage tourism > Alberta.
Historic sites > Alberta.
Petits musées > Alberta.
Relations musée-collectivité > Alberta.
Objets exposés > Alberta.
Tourisme culturel > Alberta.
Lieux historiques > Alberta.
ART / Museum Studies
Heritage tourism
Historic sites
Museum exhibits
Museums and community
Rural conditions
Small museums
Alberta > Rural conditions.
Alberta
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Worth the Trip: Travel and the Evaluation of Small-Town and Rural Museums
  • Ghosts in the Museum: Haunted Histories at the Museum of Fear and Wonder
  • Middle of Nowhere: Contesting Rural Heritage at the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum
  • Encountering Oil and Water: The Politics of Play at Extraction Museums and Historic Sites
  • Unsettling the Pioneer: Learning from Indigenous Museums and Cultural Centres.

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