A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the USA and Canada.
Author(s): Robert Lumley
Year: 1988
Language: English
Pages: 256
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on the editor and contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
The landscape of nostalgia......Page 36
Heritage and 'the conserver society': the French case......Page 38
The making of the English working past: a critical view of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum......Page 47
Museums and 'the people'......Page 74
Museums in a changing world......Page 98
Policy and politics: charges, sponsorship, and bias......Page 100
Putting your house in order: representations of women and domestic life......Page 113
Tomorrow's yesterdays: science museums and the future......Page 139
The future of the other: changing cultures on display in ethnographic museums......Page 155
'Astonished and somewhat terrified': the preservation and development of aural culture......Page 181
Sociology of the museum public......Page 208
The Pompidou Centre and its public: the limits of a Utopian site......Page 210
Counting visitors or visitors who count?......Page 224
Index......Page 244
