The Contemporary Museum adopts a presentist outlook that challenges traditional assumptions about the museum, whilst simultaneously recognising that the actions of the museum must not be determined by professional or institutional creed, but by contemporary social need.
The Contemporary Museum adopts a presentist outlook that challenges traditional assumptions about the museum, whilst simultaneously recognising that the actions of the museum must not be determined by professional or institutional creed, but by contemporary social need.
Simon Knell is Professor of Museum Studies and the senior academic in School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. He has also acted as Head of Department and Dean of Arts.
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Introduction: museums for the global contemporary PART I: A WORLD OF EQUALS 1. Modernisms: Curating art's past in the global present; 2. Indigenisation: Reconceptualising museology; 3. Islam: Islamic art, the Islamic world - and museums; 4. Xenophobia: Museums, refugees and fear of the other; 5. Diplomacy: Museums and international exhibitions PART II: PRESENT PASTS 6. Transience: Curating ephemeral art; 7. Performances: Contemporary encounters in historic spaces; 8. Transhistoricism: Using the past to critique the present; 9. Pasts: Authoring national histories in the contemporary city PART III: WHO WE ARE 10. Disability: Museums and our understandings of difference;11. Contact: Framing prostitution in a city museum; 12. Small wins: Tactics for the contemporary museum; 13. Anxiety: Unease in the museum
Introduction: museums for the global contemporary PART I: A WORLD OF EQUALS 1. Modernisms: Curating art's past in the global present; 2. Indigenisation: Reconceptualising museology; 3. Islam: Islamic art, the Islamic world - and museums; 4. Xenophobia: Museums, refugees and fear of the other; 5. Diplomacy: Museums and international exhibitions PART II: PRESENT PASTS 6. Transience: Curating ephemeral art; 7. Performances: Contemporary encounters in historic spaces; 8. Transhistoricism: Using the past to critique the present; 9. Pasts: Authoring national histories in the contemporary city PART III: WHO WE ARE 10. Disability: Museums and our understandings of difference;11. Contact: Framing prostitution in a city museum; 12. Small wins: Tactics for the contemporary museum; 13. Anxiety: Unease in the museum
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