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1 online resource (357 pages) |
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Museum Meanings |
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Museum meanings.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Museum Making; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Museum making: the place of narrative: Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale and Suzanne MacLeod; Part I: Narrative, space, identity; Introduction; 1. Imaginary museums: what mainstream museums can learn from them: Rachel Morris; 2. Staging exhibitions: atmospheres of imagination: Greer Crawley; 3. Writing spatial stories: textual narratives in the museum: Laura Hourston Hanks |
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4. Athens, London or Bilbao? Contested narratives of display in the Parthenon galleries of the British Museum: Christopher R. Marshall5. This magical place: the making of Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the politics of landscape, art and narrative: Suzanne MacLeod; 6. Narrative space: three post-apartheid museums reconsidered: Nic Coetzer; 7. The museum as narrative witness: heritage performance and the production of narrative space: Jenny Kidd; 8. Beyond narrative: designing epiphanies: Lee H. Skolnick; 9. Place, time and memory: Stephen Greenberg; Part II: Narrative, perception, embodiment |
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Introduction10. Scales of narrativity: Tricia Austin; 11. City as museum, museum as city: mediating the everyday and special narratives of life: Dorian Wiszniewski; 12. Narrative transformations and the architectural artefact: Stephen Alexander Wischer; 13. Architecture for the nation's memory: history, art, and the halls of Norway's national gallery: Mattias Ekman; 14. Arsenic, wells and herring curing: making new meanings in an old fish factory: Sheila Watson, Rachel Kirk and James Steward; 15. Accessing Estonian memories: building narratives through game form: Candice Hiu-Lam Lau |
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16. Narrative landscapes: James Furse-Roberts17. Narrative environments and the paradigm of embodiment: Jonathan Hale; Part III: Narrative, media, mediation; Introduction; 18. Narrative space: The Book of Lies: Paola Zellner; 19. Productive exhibitions: looking backwards to go forward: Florian Kossak; 20. Incomplete stories: Annabel Fraser and Hannah Coulson; 21. In the museum's ruins: staging the passage of time: Michaela Giebelhausen; 22. Meaningful encounters with disrupted narratives: artists' interventions as interpretive strategies: Claire Robins and Miranda Baxter |
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23. Where do you want the label? The roles and possibilities of exhibition graphics: Jona Piehl and Suzanne MacLeod24. The narrative of technology: understanding the effect of New Media artwork in the museum: Peter Ride; 25. The thick present: architecture, narration and film: Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe and Nathalie Weadick; 26. A narrative journey: creating storytelling environments with architecture and digital media: Tom Duncan and Noel McCauley; Select bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built museums and galleries, suggesting a fundamental re-evaluation of the processes of designing and shaping of museums. Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions examines this re-making by exploring the inherently spatial character of narrative in the museum and its potential to connect on th |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-304) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Museum architecture.
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Communication in architecture.
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museums (buildings)
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Communication in architecture
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Museum architecture
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Ausstellung
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Kulturvermittlung
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Museumsbau
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Präsentation
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hanks, Laura Hourston
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Hale, Jonathan
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| ISBN |
9780203124574 |
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020312457X |
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