Catherine Pearson

Gebundenes Buch

Museums in the Second World War

Curators, Culture and Change

Herausgeber: Keene, Suzanne

Beschreibung

Exploring the role of museums, galleries and curators during the upheaval of the Second World War, this book challenges the accepted view of a hiatus in museum services during the conflict and its immediate aftermath. Instead it argues that new thinking in the 1930s was realised in a number of promising initiatives during the war only to fail during the fragmented post-war recovery. Based on new research including interviews with retired museum staff, letters, diaries, museum archives and government records, this study reveals a complex picture of both innovation and inertia.

Autor

Catherine Pearson, Author, Independent Historian and Scholar, UK. She is the editor of the journals of museum curator, E.J. Rudsdale, 1920-1951. Suzanne Keene, Editor, Reader Emeritus at University College London. She has a number of published books on museum collections, most recently co-authoring Museums and Silent Objects: Designing Effective Exhibitions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781472479686
• ISBN-10: 1472479688
• Artikelnr.: 48012148