Museums can work to reproduce ideologies and confirm the existing
order of things, or as instruments of social reform. Yet objects in
museums can exceed their designated roles as documents or
specimens. In this wideranging and original book, Michelle Henning
explores how historical and contemporary museums and exhibitions
restage the relationship between people and material things. In
doing so, they become important sites for the development of new
forms of experience, memory and knowledge. .
. Henning reveals how museums can be theorised as a form of
media. She discusses both historical and contemporary examples,
from cabinets of curiosity, through the avant-garde exhibition
design of Lissitzy and Bayer; the experimental museums of Paul
Otlet and Otto Neurath; to science centres; immersive and virtual
museums; and major developments such as Guggenheim Bilbao, Tate
Modern in London and the National Museum of the American Indian in
Washington D.C. .
. "Museums, Media and Cultural Theory "is unique in its
treatment of the museum as a media-form, and in its detailed and
critical discussion of a wide range of display techniques. It is an
indispensable introduction to some of the key ideas, texts and
histories relevant to the museum in the 21st century. . .
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