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A Companion To Museum Studies

New Museum Theory And Practice : An Introduction

Museum Careers : A Practical Guide For Students And Novices

Museum Basics

  • Museum Basics
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    Timothy Ambrose and Crispin Paine
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    Book, 2nd ed, Routledge, 2006
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    Fully updated and extended to include the many changes that have occurred in the last decade, this second edition of world-renowned text Museum Basics provides a basic guide to all aspects of museum work and staff experience from museum organization, through collections management and conservation, to audience development and education. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  AM5 .A43 2006  DUE 12-13-09

Introduction To Museum Work

  • Introduction To Museum Work
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    G. Ellis Burcaw
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    Book, 3rd ed, Altamira Press, 1997
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    Accepted by the Documentation Center of the International Conference of Museums as exemplary of museum training, “Introduction to Museum Work” is used as a basic text in museum studies all over the world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  AM5 .B88 1997  DUE 05-17-10 +1 HOLD

The Changing Presentation Of The American Indian : Museums And Native Cultures

Museum Frictions : Public Cultures/global Transformations

Strategies Of Display : Museum Presentation In Nineteenth - And Twentieth-century Visual Culture

  • Strategies Of Display : Museum Presentation In Nineteenth - And Twentieth-century Visual Culture
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    Julia Noordegraaf
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    Book, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2004
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    Comparing the innovative exhibitions held at this Rotterdam museum with developments at other museums clarifies how its innovations in exhibition design were representative for and sometimes way ahead of techniques used in institutions such as the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Museum of Natural History in London, the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  AM151 .N66 2004  AVAILABLE

Curating Archaeological Collections : From The Field To The Repository

Displays Of Power : Controversy In The American Museum From The Enola Gay To Sensation

  • Displays Of Power : Controversy In The American Museum  From The Enola Gay To Sensation
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    Steven C. Dubin ; with a new afterword
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    Book, New York University Press, 1999
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    “A signal contribution to the ‘culture wars,’ Dubin dispassionately examines the contemporary American museum as a battleground for the control of expression where elitist and populist camps clash over politically sensitive art. –Art in America Museums have become ground zero in America’s culture wars. In Displays of Power, Steven Dubin, whose Arresting Images was deemed “masterly” by the New York Times, examines the most controversial exhibitions of the 1990s. Displays of Power draws directly upon interviews with many key combatants: museum administrators, community activists, curators, and scholars. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  AM151 .D84 1999  AVAILABLE

Exhibit Labels : An Interpretive Approach

The New Museology

The Birth Of The Museum : History, Theory, Politics

Making Representations : Museums In The Post-colonial Era

Displays Of Power : Memory And Amnesia In The American Museum

  • Displays Of Power : Memory And Amnesia In The American  Museum
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    Steven C. Dubin
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    Book, New York University Press, 1999
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    “Dubin’s book thoughtfully examines all facets of the Brooklyn confrontation without assigning blame. ?Museum National, Aug. 2001 “A signal contribution to the ‘culture wars,’ Dubin dispassionately examines the contemporary American museum as a battleground for the control of expression where elitist and populist camps clash over politically sensitive art. –Art in America Museums have become ground zero in America’s culture wars. In Displays of Power, Steven Dubin, whose Arresting Images was deemed “masterly” by the New York Times, examines the most controversial exhibitions of the 1990s. Displays of Power draws directly upon interviews with many key combatants: museum administrators, community activists, curators, and scholars. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  AM151 .D84 1999  AVAILABLE