Museum Transformations - by Annie E Coombes & Ruth B Phillips (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

International Handbooks of Museum Studies ist ein mehrbändiges Referenzwerk, das die aktuellen Entwicklungen im Fachbereich Museumsstudien beleuchtet. Essays international führender etablierter und neuer Museumsexperten betrachten sämtliche relevante Aspekte, wie Museumstheorie, Umsetzung in der Praxis, kontroverse Themen, Debatten und Auswirkung neuer Technologien. Die vier thematisch gegliederten Bände behandeln ausführlich alle Themen rund um die Museumstheorie, die historische und heutige Umsetzung der verschiedenen Ansätze, das Zusammenspiel von Kunst, Design und Architektur sowie die Herausforderungen von Museen vor dem Hintergrund von Transformationsprozessen. Neben wertvollen Studien zur heutigen wissenschaftlichen Forschung enthält das Referenzwerk unzählige Beispiele und Fallstudien, die die verschiedenen Ansätze veranschaulichen. Das mehrbändige Werk International Handbooks of Museum Studies ist ein Muss für alle, die sich mit der Entwicklung, Rolle und Bedeutung von Museen in der heutigen Gesellschaft beschäftigen.

From the Back Cover

MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS
DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION

Edited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPS

Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography responded to deconstructive critiques from activists and poststructuralist and postcolonial theorists, and provided models for change to other types of museums and heritage sites.

The volume's first set of essays discuss the role of the museum in the narration of difficult histories, and how altering the social attitudes and political structures that enable oppression requires the recognition of past histories of political and racial oppression and colonization in museums. Subsequent essays consider the museum's new roles in social action and discuss experimental projects that work to change power dynamics within institutions and leverage digital technology and new media.

THE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOKS OF MUSEUM STUDIES
General Editors: Sharon Macdonald and Helen Rees Leahy

The International Handbooks of Museum Studies is a multi-volume reference work that represents a state-of-the-art survey of the burgeoning field of museum studies. Featuring original essays by leading international museum experts and emerging scholars, readings cover all aspects of museum theory, practice, debates, and the impact of technologies. The four volumes in the series, divided thematically, offer in-depth treatment of all major issues relating to museum theory; historical and contemporary museum practice; mediations in art, design, and architecture; and the transformations and challenges confronting the museum. In addition to invaluable surveys of current scholarship, the entries include a rich and diverse panoply of examples and original case studies to illuminate the various perspectives. Unprecedented for its in-depth topic coverage and breadth of scholarship, the multi-volume International Handbooks of Museum Studies is an indispensable resource for the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society.

SHARON MACDONALD is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Üniversität zu Berlin, where she also directs the CARMAH, the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage.

HELEN REES LEAHY is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester, where she was Director of the Centre for Museology from 2002-2017.

About the Author

ANNIE E. COOMBES is Professor of Material and Visual Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, where she teaches museum studies and art and cultural history. She is Director of the Peltz Gallery and author of award-winning books on museums, memorialization, and the legacy of colonialism.

RUTH B. PHILLIPS is Canada Research Professor of Art History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She has served as director of the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology and teaches and publishes on Indigenous North American art and critical museology.