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A Museum in Public - Revisioning Canada's Royal Ontario Museum (Paperback)
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A Museum in Public - Revisioning Canada's Royal Ontario Museum (Paperback)
Series: Museums in Focus
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Not satisfied with the assertion that museums have taken great
strides in becoming representative, relevant and open in their
preoccupations, A Museum in Public contends that the supposedly
public nature of their institutional role continues to be a
rhetorical one. This book critically examines museums as
institutions of the public sphere, questioning what assumptions are
made about the publicness of their operations. Using as a case
study the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Canada's largest museum, the
book interrogates the public nature and political dynamics of the
ROM as it completed a multi-million dollar architectural project
and adopted a new vision of the museum. Providing an engaged
cultural analysis of how publicness is reflected in the attitudes
and behaviours of management, staff and visitors, Ashley claims
that museums often function as a boundary zone between the needs
and concerns of the public and ideas of publicness that serve
corporate and managerial interests and practices. Asking the reader
to seriously consider whether the ideals of contact zone and
engagement are practically possible within an administrative
setting, the book offers insights into how museums might achieve
political publicness through transparent, open and democratic
communicative action. A Museum in Public raises questions at the
intersection of disciplines and, as a result, will appeal to
academics, researchers and postgraduates in a number of fields,
including: museum studies, heritage studies, cultural studies,
cultural policy, public policy, political science, sociology,
geography, architecture, art history, public history, tourism
studies, and cultural management.
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