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Selma Holo, Mari-Tere Alvarez - Beyond the Turnstile, Inbunden

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Beyond the Turnstile

Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values

Av Selma Holo, Mari-Tere Alvarez

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Beyond the Turnstile argues that museums are indispensable to civil society, especially in an era in which museums often are reduced to cultural businesses or "edu-tainment" sites. Is it inevitable that a museum's success will be measured solely by how many people come through the door and how much money they spend? The eminent contributors to this volume provide museum leaders with a different set of criteria for evaluating the success of their museums, proposing a set of sustainable values that can help museums preserve themselves and advance their social mission in hard times—and help them thrive when times improve. While attendance and money will continue to count and be counted in our museums, numbers alone can never drive sustainable success. Only the unique dynamic identity that a museum can claim will do that.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2009-12-16
  • Mått: 186 x 265 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 665 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 216
  • Förlag: AltaMira Press
  • ISBN: 9780759112216
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Selma Holo is director of the Fisher Museum of Art and the International Museum Institute at the University of Southern California. Mari-Tere Alvarez is project specialist in the Department of Education at the J. Paul Getty Museum and serves as associate director of the International Museum Institute.

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The timing could hardly be better for this guide to values that can sustain museums over time. Today, under economic pressures, museums are tempted to resort to stopgap strategies - in relation to collections, exhibitions, and diverse publics - that may keep the doors open but often threaten long-term institutional credibility. Selma Holo, Mari-Tere Alvarez, and the distinguished colleagues they have gathered in Beyond the Turnstile offer those professionally involved with museums the opportunity to return to core principles. Equally importantly, they provide museum visitors and patrons guidelines about what they have a right to expect, even in difficult circumstances.

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