An architect's view of recent developments in European museums / Ian Ritchie -- Some general thoughts on corporate museum identity : the case of the Villa Arson, Nice / Ruedi Baur, Pippo Lionni and Christian Bernard -- Aims, strengths and weaknesses of the European science centre movement / Melanie Quin -- The debate on heritage reviewed / Robert Lumley -- Visitor studies in Germany : methods and examples / Bernhard Graf -- Families in museums / Paulette M. McManus -- Travelling exhibits : the Swedish experience / Jan Hjorth -- 'Why are you playing at washing up again?' Some reasons and methods for developing exhibitions for children / Gillian Thomas -- Museum education : past, present and future / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- The rhetoric of display / Peter Vergo -- The medium is the museum : on objects and logics in times and spaces / Roger Silverstone -- Some processes particular to the scientific exhibition / Bernard Schiele and Louise Boucher -- The identity crisis of natural history museum at the end of the twentieth century / Pere Alberch.
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An authoritative collection of essays on European museums struggling to adapt in a changing world. Includes discussions on all types of museums, as well as the role of the museum as educator and communicator.
Towards the museum of the future.
0415094984
Museums-- Europe.
Musées-- Europe.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Museum Administration & Museology.