Programming for leisure and learning Evaluation and research A balancing act Conclusions: a sustainable future? Note References Further Reading 25 REVIEWING THE DIGITAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPE: The Intersection of Digital Media and Museum Practice Defining digital heritage The past is prologue: historicizing the field Museum computing and the “cultural turn” The digital horizon: new technologies Key issues and controversies Content, representation, and control Conclusion Notes References
15 AFTERWORD: The Continuing Struggle for Diversity and Equality
16 MUSEUM PRACTICE AND MEDIATION: An Afterword
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1 Introduction0.1 Integrated model of museum studies incorporating research, practice, trainin...
2 Chapter 33.1 Policy, funding, and accountability cascade: a map of central government’s s...
3 Chapter 44.1 Participant responses to the question: “Why this change in museum ethics now...4.2 The three spheres of contemporary ethics discourse4.3 Participant responses to “Key issues that museums are grappling with in the ...4.4 Participant responses to “The moral agency of museums”4.5 Participant responses to “Hopes and aspirations for shared guardianship”4.6 Reflections on the most insightful elements of the five workshops4.7 Reflections on the most challenging issues from the five workshops
4 Chapter 66.1 Music in the foyer at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel6.2 Rehanging one of the sixteenth-century Gideon Tapestries at the National Tru...6.3 Collection of ceramics at the Stoke Potteries Museum6.4 Local participants in the Moving Here project visit New Walk Museum, Leicest...
5 Chapter 88.1 Invitation to Tate Britain Summer Party, June 21, 2010. From Not If But When...8.2 “Human Cost” by Liberate Tate, 2010. Photo from front cover of Not If But Wh...
6 Chapter 1010.1 The x-axis (collection order and disorder)10.2 The x-axis (collection order and disorder) and y-axis (collection growth an...10.3 The x-axis (collection order and disorder), y-axis (collection growth and l...
7 Chapter 1111.1 The Ancient Worlds gallery, Manchester Museum11.2 A botany assortment from the collections of the Manchester Museum11.3 A “bioblitz” or collecting expedition for the Trees project, Whitworth Park...
8 Chapter 1212.1 Interactive pest viewer, KE EMu database12.2 An example of interpretive content on the “Variety of Life,” part of a free...12.3 Results for a search on “Captain Cook” from Collections Online, Museum of N...12.4 Matches for “William Hunter Ramsay” from the Europeana project, harvested f...12.5 Screen shot of the Your Paintings Tagger showing an oil painting of Sir Ian...12.6 Screen shot of YouTube clip on the investigation of Lindow Man, Collective ...
9 Chapter 1313.1 The Burra Charter process, with its sequence of investigations, decisions, ...
10 Chapter 1414.1 The exhibition Sleeping and Dreaming at Wellcome Collection, London
11 Chapter 1616.1 A view of the vertebrate paleontology gallery after completion. The exhibit...16.2 Life cycle of a product or system16.3 Rolled-out model, 201116.4 Linear model
12 Chapter 1717.1 Image from ART/artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections, Center fo...17.2 Image from ART/artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections, Center fo...17.3 “Taking Care” section of the Families exhibition. Minnesota History Center ...17.4 “F is for Fire Engine” in Minnesota A to Z, Minnesota History Center Museum...17.5 Minnesota’s Greatest Generation exhibit in the form of a crashed World War ...
13 Chapter 1818.1 Model of Professor Baldwin Spencer, biologist, anthropologist, and honorary...18.2 Exhibition Hitler and the Germans. Nation and Crime, Berlin 2010. View of t...18.3 Exhibition Hitler and the Germans. Nation and Crime, Berlin 2010. View of t...18.4 Exhibition The Image of the “Other” in Germany and France from 1871 to the ...18.5 Exhibition The Image of the “Other” in Germany and France from 1871 to the ...18.6 Rebecca Belmore, Rising to the Occasion, 1987. Art Gallery of Ontario.18.7 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Founding Identities gallery, 2011
14 Chapter 1919.1 Alison Brown and Andy Black Water examining the draft manuscript of a book ...19.2 Tom Tettleman and Richard LeBeau in front of the Ghost Dance Shirt after it...
15 Chapter 2020.1 Dancers provide a traditional ceremonial “Welcome to country” upon the retu...20.2 Larrakia families welcome the remains of their ancestors, Mindil Beach, Dar...
16 Chapter 2121.1 Detail of a panel from the My Treasure community exhibition (Mid-Antrim and...
17 Chapter 2323.1 The “Arrivals” display in the exhibition Blood, Earth, Fire | Whāngai Whenu...23.2 The computer interactive in the “Arrivals” display in the exhibition Blood,...
18 Chapter 2424.1 Formal education versus learning through participation: the Victorian class...24.2 Two participants examining a traditional coffee pot as a part of the Asian ...24.3 Older men with dementia in a day center using archive photographs of footba...24.4 Year 9 students (aged 13/14) in the British Museum using a Samsung tablet t...24.5 Youth forum/paid young consultants group discussing exhibitions, interpreta...
19 Museum Practice and Mediation: An AfterwordA2.1 Walk among Worlds, an installation by Máximo González, October 12 – Novembe...A2.2 Opening performance of the community-based collaborative exhibition Death I...A2.3 Museum, Academia Sinica, TaipeiA2.4 Atrium, Capital Museum, BeijingA2.5 Exhibit Gallery, Kokdu Museum, SeoulA2.6 Box of Promises, collaborative work between George Nuku (Māori) and Cory Do...A2.7 Entrance to The Marvellous Real: Art from Mexico 1926-2011, Audain Gallery,...A2.8 Imprint, choreographed by Henry Daniel and Owen Underhill. Great Hall, Muse...
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