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Museums of ideas : commitment and conflict : a collection of essays / [Bix Gabriel ... et al.]

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Author:
Gabriel, Bix  Search this
Physical description:
619 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2011
Contents:
Sites of conscience : past to present, memory to action / Bix Gabriel -- Imagining the happy museum / Tony Butler -- The value of risk : Noah's Ark at Skirball Cultural Center / Sheri Bernstein & Marni Gittleman -- Giving Corto Maltese a house : engaging visitors beyond the original versus copy debate / Silvia Casini -- Amoroteket : a museum of sexology / Stine Cathrine Kühle-Hansen -- Museum as creativity : building the universal through the individual / Darko Babic & Zeljka Miklosevic -- Education syndicates : a new model for museum learning / Tim Desmond -- Staying true to innovation at the Tech Museum / Lydia Johnson -- An idea-based exhibit : platform for participation / Tom Hanchett -- Furnished with ideas : a new model of historic house interpretation / Erin Carlson Mast -- An English language museum : the English Project's ambition / Nick Lodge, Christopher Mulvey & Beryl Pratley -- Object of ideas : towards realizing a museum of ideas in Norway / Morien Rees -- Freedom : the need for courage, cooperation and perseverance as the struggle continues / Dina Bailey, Stephanie Creech & Jamie Glavic -- The power of the story / Bram Beelaert, Mandy Nauwelaerts & Luc Verheyen -- Forgetting, remembering : the Jihad Museum and the Victims Museum in Afghanistan / Sophia Milosevic Bijleveld -- The Peace and Reconciliation Gallery at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum / Natalie Heidaripour -- Architecture, politics and memory work : fieldnotes from the Ulucanlar Prison Museum / Eray Çayli -- Mechanisms of violence : historical tools for human rights educaiton / Marzia Gigli, Elena Monicelli & Mattia Seligardi -- Sitting on the fence... what's the point? / Adrian Kerr -- Come write on our walls! / Salliy Roesch Wagner -- Memory as a muse for morality : the Museum of Memory and Tolerance in Mexico City / L Sasha Gora -- National Stadium, National Memorial / Wally Kunstmann -- Japanese peace museums and the challenges and perspectives of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace / Junko Kanekiyo -- Diversity, democracy and the modern museum : conflicted goals in the 21st Century? -- Hamish Robertson & Jeffrey Cohen
Topic:
Museums--Educational aspects  Search this
Museums--Social aspects  Search this
Museums--Philosophy  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1009715