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The Thing about Museums - Objects and Experience, Representation and Contestation (Paperback)
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The Thing about Museums - Objects and Experience, Representation and Contestation (Paperback)
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The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse
collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either
museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking
varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the
chapters all address objects in the context of museums, galleries
and/or the heritage sector more broadly. Specifically, the book
deals with how objects are constructed in museums, the ways in
which visitors may directly experience those objects, how objects
are utilised within particular representational strategies and
forms, and the challenges and opportunities presented by using
objects to communicate difficult and contested matters. Topics and
approaches examined in the book are diverse, but include the
objectification of natural history specimens and museum registers;
materiality, immateriality, transience and absence; subject/object
boundaries; sensory, phenomenological perspectives; the
museumisation of objects and collections; and the dangers inherent
in assuming that objects, interpretation and heritage are 'good'
for us.
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