| Description |
viii, 221 pages : illustrations |
| Series |
Making histories in museums |
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Making histories in museums.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Gaynor Kavanagh -- 1. Transports of delight: museums, visitors and enthusiasts -- 2. Trains, planes, cars and boats: collecting and displaying vehicles -- 3. Travels in the past: exhibiting social histories of transport -- 4. Theories and things: history and the changing role of the object -- 5. To travel hopefully...: heritage transport as museums -- 6. Moving on: a future for transport museums -- Bibliography: Museum and exhibition catalogues and guidebooks; contemporary descriptions, reports and surveys |
| Summary |
"This book is the first for over thirty years to take transport museums seriously as vehicles for the making of public histories. Drawing upon many years' experience of visiting and working in transport museums around the world, the authors argue that the sector's historical roots are more complex than is usually thought. In recent years, efforts to attract new and wider audiences have concentrated on exhibiting social histories of transport and travel. While rarely perfect, these displays have the potential to encourage visitors to reflect critically on the opportunities and challenges presented by transport in the past, present and future. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective but firmly rooted in the practice of making public histories, this book brings the study of transport museums firmly into the mainstream of academic and professional debate."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Transportation museums.
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Historical museums.
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Museum techniques.
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Material culture.
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| Author |
Scott, Andrew, 1949-
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| LC no. |
00053495 |
| ISBN |
0718501063 |
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