Elaine Heumann Gurian

Civilizing the Museum

The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written over a thirty-five year career, the essays in Civilizing the Museum introduce students to the powerful, sometimes contested, and often unrealized notion that museums should welcome all because they house the collective memory of all. Drawing on her experience working in and with museums in the US and throughout the world, Author Elaine Heumann Gurian explores the possibilities for making museums more central and relevant to society. The twenty-two essays are organized around five main themes: museum definitions civic responsibility and social service architectural spaces exhibitions spirituality and rationality. And these themes address the elements that would make museums more inclusive such as: exhibition technique space configurations the personality of the director the role of social service power sharing types of museums the need for emotion humour and spirituality. Without abandoning the traditional museum processes, Gurian shows how museums can honour tradition whilst embracing the new. Enriched by her experience in groundbreaking museums, Gurian has provided a book that provokes thought, dialogue and action for students and professionals in the field to realize the inclusive potential of museums.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780415357623
• ISBN-10: 0415357624
• Artikelnr.: 21824870

Autorenporträt

Heumann Gurian, Elaine

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction: reflections on 35 years in the museum field
PART I: The importance of "and": about opportunities
possibilities
taxonomy
and definitions
1. The concept of fairness: a debate at the American Association of Museums
1990
2. The importance of "and": a comment on Excellence and Equity
1992
3. The molting of children's museums? An observation
1998
4. What is the object of this exercise? A meandering exploration of the many meanings of objects in museums
1999
5. Choosing among the options: an opinion about museum definitions
2002
6. Timeliness: a discussion for museums
2003
PART II: A safer place: museums in a civil society
7. The museum as a socially responsible institution
1988
8. Turning the ocean liner slowly: about the process of change in larger institutions
1990
9. The opportunity for social service
1991 8210. A savings bank for the soul: about institutions of memory and congregant spaces
1996
PART III: Space
the final frontier: museums
construction
architecture
and space planning
11. Function follows form: how mixed-used spaces in museums build community
2001
12. Threshold fear: architecture program planning
2005
13. Free at last: a case for the elimination of admission charges in museums
2005
PART IV: Noodling around with exhibition opportunities: examining the process that influences them
14. Answers to the ten questions I am most often asked: a review of exhibitions and learning
1981
15. Noodling around with exhibition opportunities: the potential meanings of exhibition modalities
1991
16. Let's empower all those who have a stake in exhibitions: about the uses
meaning
and failings of the team approach
1990
17. Reluctant recognition of the superstar: a paean to individual brilliance
and how it operates
1992
18. A blurring of the boundaries
1994
19. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: history or metaphor? 1993
PART V: Spirituality: the end of the age of the rational
20. A Jew among the Indians: how working outside of one's own culture works
1991
21. Repatriation in context: the important changes brought to museums by indigenous communities
1991
22. Singing and dancing at night: a biographic meaning to working in the spiritual arena
2004
Bibliography
Index