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Dream Spaces - Memory and the Museum (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Dream Spaces - Memory and the Museum (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Bringing together theory from disparate fields, including
behavioural gerontology, counselling and therapy, applied
psychology and historiography, and drawing on research from the UK,
the USA and Europe, this is a multi-faceted study of memory and the
museum. It explores what Sheldon Annis referred to as the "dream
space", the non-rational, affective and reflective experience of
encountering material and ourselves within the museum and, for the
purpose of this book, within the processes and procedures of making
history in museums. It examines the theory of "dream space" in the
context of the practical world of museums where so many of the
issues of memory, the life span and their connections are brought
into sharp focus. The book has four parts: the relationship of
memory to history and the changing place of memory within
historiographic and museological theory; the dynamics of memory and
its employment in the construction of social knowledge of the past
through the medium of exhibitions - in essence, memory as product;
the experience of remembering in the museum or through access to
museum collections -that is memory as process; and the interplay of
product and pro
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