The Changing Museum - A History of New Walk Museum (Hardcover)

This book Uses the example of New Walk Museum, Leicester, and its' collections to examine and explain the complexity, multicausality and reasons for change in museums. Makes use of original interview and archive material to examine how and why social, economic, political and professional developments affected the work that was undertaken in New Walk Covers a time-span much longer than is normal for a book on museum history with the aim to allow for a more nuanced understanding of the causes and consequences of museum change over time. Also discusses the problems and possibilities of undertaking museum history research. Is aimed at all those with an interest in understanding how and why change affects museum practice and will be of interest to museum professionals, academics and students in museum studies, history, politics and sociology as well to the general museum visitor who would like to discover more about the institutions that they visit.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Museum Studies
Release date:	November 2022
First published:	2023
Authors:	Clive Gray
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	198
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-25786-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-367-25786-6
Barcode:	9780367257866

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