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Introducing Museum Studies by Gordon Fyfe. At their best, museums help us to see that everything is on the move and that change is the natural order of things. Author Gordon Fyfe. Title Introducing Museum Studies.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPolity Press
ISBN-100745642136
ISBN-139780745642130
eBay Product ID (ePID)15068559777
Product Key Features
Number of Pages248 Pages
Publication NameIntroducing Museum Studies
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
SubjectGeneral
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science
AuthorGordon Fyfe
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight12.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal069
Table Of ContentPreface and Acknowledgements Figures Introduction 1 Museums, Disciplines, Museology 2 The Genesis of the Museum: Dynasties, Nations, Empires, Colonization 3 The Making of a Public Space 4 Museums and Communities 5 Visitor Studies in Context 6 Museum Meanings 7 Contested Spaces 8 Theory, Methodologies, Methods Conclusion Notes References Index
SynopsisIntroducing Museum Studies is the first introductory textbook for museum studies. Providing a wide-ranging and original overview of museums from a historical and contemporary perspective, it covers key topics such as the history of the museum, the museum as a public space, visitors, and communities. The book shows how museums, far from being neutral collections, exhibit objects which convey powerful symbolic meanings. This "cultural turn" away from the object as a thing in itself has placed museums at the centre of debates about public culture, citizenship, inclusion and repatriation. Museums are becoming increasingly reflexive given the awareness of the social and political role they serve and their ability to reflect the problems of our time. Gordon Fyfe shows how and why this reflexivity creates a need for historical perspective on current practices: on the one hand museums are enmeshed in a changing world and on the other hand they exhibit change. At their best, museums help us to see that everything is on the move and that change is the natural order of things. Accessibly written, this is the go-to introduction for scholars and students of museum studies, arts and cultural management, and heritage studies., Introducing Museum Studies is the first introductory textbook for museum studies. Providing a wide-ranging and original overview of museums from a historical and contemporary perspective, it covers key topics such as the history of the museum, the museum as a public space, visitors, and communities. The book shows how museums, far from being neutral collections, exhibit objects which convey powerful sumbolic meanings. Museums are cultural spaces. They are as much cultural as the cultures they exhibit. This' cultural turn' away from the object as a thing in itself has placed museums at the centre of debates about public culture, citizenship, inclusion and repartriation. Given the awareness of the social and political role they serve and their ability to reflect the problems of our time, museums are becoming ever more reflexive. Gordom Fyfe shows how and why this reflexivity creates a need for a historical perspectives on current practices: on the one hand, museums are enmeshed in a changing world and, on the other, they exhibit change. At their best. museums helps us to see that change is the natural order of things. Accesibly written, this is the go-to introduction for scholars and students of museum studies, arts and cultural management, heritage studies and the social sciences.
