Susan L. T. Ashley

A Museum in Public (eBook, ePUB)

Revisioning Canada's Royal Ontario Museum

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Not satisfied with the assertion that museums have taken great strides in becoming representative, relevant and open in their preoccupations, A Museum in Public contends that the supposedly public nature of their institutional role continues to be a rhetorical one. This book critically examines museums as institutions of the public sphere, questioning what assumptions are made about the publicness of their operations. Using as a case study the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Canada's largest museum, the book interrogates the public nature and political dynamics of the ROM as it completed a multi-million dollar architectural project and adopted a new vision of the museum.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351262460
• Artikelnr.: 57480879

Autorenporträt

Susan L.T. Ashley is Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries Management and AHRC Leadership Fellow in (Multi)Cultural Heritage at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She is a cultural studies scholar interested in what, how, and why heritage knowledge is created, shaped, communicated, and consumed in the public sphere. Dr Ashley has published widely, including Diverse Spaces: Identity, Heritage and Community in Canadian Public Culture (2013). She has 20 years of experience with culture and heritage sites across Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 SETTING THE CONTEXT
1. Boundary Zone
2. Publicness, Public Institutions and the Public Interest
3. Renaissance and the ROM In Public
Part 2 THE ROM IN PUBLIC
4. Structuring
5. Positioning
6. Exhibitioning
7. Interacting
Part 3 REVISIONING
8. Revisioning Publicness at the ROM
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