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Museum, Place, Architecture and Narrative
Nordic Maritime Museums' Portrayals of Shipping, Seafarers and Maritime Communities
Av Annika Bünz
Inbunden, 2022
1979 kr
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A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. The museum can thereby be directly linked to the site and its history. It is therefore vital to investigate the maritime …
Lives of Chinese Objects
Buddhism, Imperialism and Display
Inbunden, 2011
1979 kr
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This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a …
Colonial Collecting and Display
Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Inbunden, 2013
1894 kr
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In the late-nineteenth century, British travelers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands compiled wide-ranging collections of material culture for scientific instruction and personal satisfaction. Colonial Collecting and Display follows the compelling history of a particular set of such objects, …
Borders of Belonging
Experiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site
Inbunden, 2014
1894 kr
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In an era cross-cut with various agendas and expressions of national belonging and global awareness, “the nation” as a collective reference point and experienced entity stands at the center of complex identity struggles. This book explores how such struggles unfold in practice at a highly symbolic …
Enemy on Display
The Second World War in Eastern European Museums
Av Zuzanna Bogumił, Joanna Wawrzyniak m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1834 kr
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Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes …
Exhibiting Europe in Museums
Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations
Av Wolfram Kaiser, Stefan Krankenhagen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1921 kr
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Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalization, which require more cross-border cooperation and different ways of telling stories for visitors. This book investigates how museums exhibit …
Museum Websites and Social Media
Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity
Inbunden, 2015
1979 kr
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Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume offers a holistic picture of museum online activities that can serve as a starting point for …
Exhibiting Europe in Museums
Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations
Av Wolfram Kaiser, Stefan Krankenhagen m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
520 kr
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Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalization, which require more cross-border cooperation and different ways of telling stories for visitors. This book investigates how museums exhibit …
Visitors to the House of Memory
Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Inbunden, 2017
1867 kr
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As one of the most visited museums in Germany’s capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity. Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of …
Witness as Object
Video Testimony in Memorial Museums
Inbunden, 2018
1979 kr
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In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "museum object." Audiovisual recordings of interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance are now integral to the collections and research activities of museums. They have also become important components …
Enemy on Display
The Second World War in Eastern European Museums
Av Zuzanna Bogumił, Joanna Wawrzyniak m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
467 kr
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Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes …
Museum Websites and Social Media
Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity
Häftad, 2019
527 kr
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Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume offers a holistic picture of museum online activities that can serve as a starting point for …
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time
Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls
Inbunden, 2019
1861 kr
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Via the Smithsonian Institution, an exploration of the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of museums in the 21st century.Describing participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever …
Museum of Mankind
Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department
Av Ben Burt
Inbunden, 2019
1701 kr
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The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in …
Witness as Object
Video Testimony in Memorial Museums
Häftad, 2019
316 kr
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In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "museum object." Audiovisual recordings of interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance are now integral to the collections and research activities of museums. They have also become important components …
Visitors to the House of Memory
Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Häftad, 2020
441 kr
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As one of the most visited museums in Germany’s capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity. Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of …
Exchanging Objects
Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution
Inbunden, 2021
1880 kr
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As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local …
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time
Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls
Häftad, 2022
381 kr
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Via the Smithsonian Institution, an exploration of the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of museums in the 21st century.Describing participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever …
Transforming Author Museums
From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs
Av Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2209 kr
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Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies centered not only on biography, but also …
Contested Holdings
Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return
Av Felicity Bodenstein, Damiana Otoiu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1979 kr
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Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of processes of return that affect museums and collections, as well as notions of heritage and object status. Covering a range of case studies and a global …
Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough
Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York
Av Jeffrey Abt
Inbunden, 2024
1696 kr
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Displays of Jewish ritual objects in public, non-Jewish settings by Jews are a comparatively recent phenomenon. So too is the establishment of Jewish museums. This volume explores the origins of the Jewish Museum of New York and its evolution from collecting and displaying Jewish ritual objects, to …
Transforming Author Museums
From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs
Av Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
453 kr
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Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies centered not only on biography, but also …
Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough
Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York
Av Jeffrey Abt
Häftad, 2027
394 kr
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Displays of Jewish ritual objects in public, non-Jewish settings by Jews are a comparatively recent phenomenon. So too is the establishment of Jewish museums. This volume explores the origins of the Jewish Museum of New York and its evolution from collecting and displaying Jewish ritual objects, to …
Museum of Mankind
Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department
Av Ben Burt
Häftad, 2025
339 kr
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The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in …
Exchanging Objects
Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution
Häftad, 2025
394 kr
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As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local …
Museum Times
Changing Histories in South Africa
Av Leslie Witz
Häftad, 2026
527 kr
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Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary …
Future of Indigenous Museums
Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific
Av Nick Stanley
Inbunden, 2007
1916 kr
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Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. They derive from a number of motives, ranging from the commercial to the cultural political (and many combine both). A close study of this phenomenon is not only valuable …
Future of Indigenous Museums
Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific
Av Nick Stanley
Häftad, 2008
527 kr
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Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. They derive from a number of motives, ranging from the commercial to the cultural political (and many combine both). A close study of this phenomenon is not only valuable …
Long Way Home
The Meaning and Values of Repatriation
Av Paul Turnbull, Michael Pickering
Häftad, 2010
527 kr
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Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artefacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientific …
