New Museums and the Making of Culture - Softcover

Message, Kylie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845204549 ISBN 13: 9781845204549

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

In the last decade, museums all around the world have been reinventing themselves. They are now much more than scholarly, cultural archives. A remit to reach out to a broader public, the increasing politicization of the ownership and curation of objects, the architectural expectations of new buildings, the requirements of the "event exhibit". . .all have changed the way any new museum is built, operates and serves its public purpose. Museums now reflect global economics and local politics. New museums now shape our public culture.

Illustrated with a very wide range of museums and museum spaces - from Moma in New York to the reconstruction of Ground Zero, from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington Dc to the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, from the planned renewal of the Crystal Palace site in London to the Sendai Mediatheque in Japan - the book reveals how the new museum is evolving as a cross-disciplinary, self-consciously political, and often avowedly self-reflexive institution.

About this title

About the Author

Kylie Message is ARC Special Research Centre Research Fellow and Convener of the Museums and Collections graduate program at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, the Australian National University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845204549
• ISBN 13: 9781845204549
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250