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The Museum Movement: Carnegie Cultural Philanthropy and Museum Development in the Anglosphere, 1920-1940: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Autor Ian McShane
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 mar 2025
The Museum Movement provides the first systematic overview of the ‘museum movement’ of the early twentieth century, which encouraged museums to play a greater role in education and civic uplift.
Highlighting the key role played by the Carnegie Corporation in guiding museum development in the late colonial period, the book shows that the movement was strongly influenced by the racial politics of the period and that its focus on local histories and civic engagement sought to boost the historical legitimacy and continued vitality of small towns and their dominant white populations. Demonstrating that the ‘museum movement’ placed new emphasis on the importance of professionalisation, interpretation, and audience engagement, McShane shows how, by the late 1930s, the movement had helped lay the foundations of museology. The book also constructs a genealogy of the ‘new’ museology, the next wave of museum reform that emerged in the 1970s, by reflecting critically on the ‘newness’ of some of its ideas. Indicating that ‘new’ thinking about audience, display media, and the economics of culture has a longer history, the book also provides historical perspectives on current interests in informal and social learning, the formation of museum publics, and institutional convergence.
The Museum Movement explores the intersections and crosscurrents of modernism and settler-colonialism and will thus appeal to academics and students with an interest in museum studies, heritage, history, colonial studies, and race.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367623623
ISBN-10: 0367623625
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 36
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction; 2. The Museum Movement: Background and Influences;3. Survey, Analysis, Plan: The Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Cultural Programs; 4. Museum Development and the British Empire Museum Surveys;5. Expert and Efficient: Curators and Managers in the New Museum; 6. Visiting Museums: Education, Behaviour and New Leisure; 7. Conclusion: Museology Old and New?

Notă biografică

Ian McShane is an honorary associate professor with the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests focus on the informal and formal education sectors, including museums, libraries, and schools, and he has published widely on cultural, educational and urban policy. Prior to academia, Ian worked as a museum curator, arts administrator and education consultant.

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The Museum Movement provides the first systematic overview of the ‘museum movement’ of the early twentieth century, which encouraged museums to play a greater role in education and civic uplift.