Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge
Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge

Author: Eileen Hooper Greenhill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1992-01-23

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1134912692

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Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time, when funding is becoming increasingly scarce, difficult questions are being asked about the justification of museums. Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge presents a critical survey of major changes in current assumptions about the nature of museums. Through the examination of case studies, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill reveals a variety of different roles for museums in the production and shaping of knowledge. Today, museums are once again organising their spaces and collections to present themselves as environments for experimental and self-directed learning.

Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge
Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge

Author: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0415070317

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Drawing on numerous case studies, Hooper-Greenhill presents a critical survey of major changes in current assumptions about the nature of museums, and argues that museums are consciously organizing their spaces and collections to aid self-learning.

Museums and Their Visitors
Museums and Their Visitors

Author: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1134915853

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A guide for museum and gallery staff in the development of provision for their visitors, to ensure survival into the next century.

The Educational Role of the Museum
The Educational Role of the Museum

Author: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780415198264

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Grounded in the strengths of its first edition, this book has been restructured to include new papers and recent articles, and presents front-running theory and practice as it addresses the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences.

The Engaging Museum
The Engaging Museum

Author: Graham Black

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1136761713

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This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to front-of-house management, interpretive approach and qualitative analysis afterwards. This holistic approach will be immensely helpful to museums in meeting the needs and expectations of visitors and building their audience. This book features: includes chapter introductions and discussion sections supporting case studies to show how ideas are put into practice a lavish selection of tables, figures and plates to support and illustrate the discussion boxes showing ideas, models and planning suggestions to guide development an up-to-date bibliography of landmark research. The Engaging Museum offers a set of principles that can be adapted to any museum in any location and will be a valuable resource for institutions of every shape and size, as well as a vital addition to the reading lists of museum studies students.

From Knowledge to Narrative
From Knowledge to Narrative

Author: Lisa C. Roberts

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1588344487

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From Knowledge to Narrative shows that museum educators—professionals responsible for making collections intelligble to viewers—have become central figures in shaping exhibits. Challenging the traditional, scholarly presentation of objects, educators argue that, rather than transmitting knowledge, museums' displays should construct narratives that are determined as much by what is meaningful to visitors as by what curators intend. Lisa C. Roberts discusses museum education in relation to entertainment, as a tool of empowerment, as a shaper of experience, and as an ethical responsibility. The book argues for an expanded role for museum education based less on explaining objects than on interpreting narratives.

Engaging Young Children in Museums
Engaging Young Children in Museums

Author: Sharon E Shaffer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-16

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 131542956X

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What does a museum do with a kindergartner who walks through the door? The growth of interest in young children learning in museums has joined the national conversation on early childhood education. Written by Sharon Shaffer, the founding Executive Director of the innovative Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, this is the first book for museum professionals as well as students offering guidance on planning programming for young children.This groundbreaking book:-Explains the various ways in which children learn-Shows how to use this knowledge to design effective programs using a variety of teaching models-Includes examples of successful programs, tested activities, and a set of best practices

Museums and the Past
Museums and the Past

Author: Viviane Gosselin

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0774830646

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This vibrant new collection edited by Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers. The idea of historical consciousness – how our conception of the past informs our sense of the present and of the future – is of growing importance for cultural institutions in North America. Using case studies and observations that emerge from a Canadian context, Museums and the Past considers how the modern museum fosters public perceptions of history. Contributors focus on the relationship between historical consciousness and museum practice and reflect on the challenges of transforming museums into dynamic civic labs and meaningful places of memory and learning. The result is an engaging range of perspectives on the contemporary museum’s pedagogical and ethical responsibilities.

Museums and Truth
Museums and Truth

Author: Annette B. Fromm

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-10-16

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1443869511

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Museums are usually seen as arenas for the authorised presentations of reality, based on serious, professional knowledge. Yet, in spite of the impossibility of giving anything but a highly abstract and extremely selective impression in an exhibition, very few museums problematize this or discuss their priorities with their public. They don’t ask “what are the other truths of the matter?” Though the essays in this collection are not written with museums and truth as their explicit subject, they highlight contested truths, the absence of the truth of the underprivileged, whether one truth is more worthy than the other, and whether lesser truths can dilute the value of greater truths. One of the articles included here lets youngsters choose which truth is most probable or just, while another talks about an exhibition where the public must choose which truth to adhere to before entering. One shows how a political change gives a new opportunity to finally restore valuable truths of the past to the present, and another describes the highly dangerous task of making museums and memorials for the truths of the oppressed. Lastly, one explores whether we live in a period where the sources for authorized truths are fragmented and questioned, and asks, what should the consequences for museums be?