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Title Plantation to nation : Caribbean museums and national identity
Published [Place of publication not identified] Common Ground 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Inclusive museum series Plantation to nation
Contents Natural history = national history : early origins and organizing principles of museums in the English-speaking Caribbean / Alissandra Cummins -- Haiti, museums and public collections : their history and development after 1804 / Marie-Lucie Vendryes -- The history and evolution of Cuban museums / Jose Linares -- The natural history collections of the University of the West Indies (UWI) / Mike Rutherford -- The national gallery of Jamaica : a critical history / Veerle Poupeye -- Bermuda Maritime Museum : development of a national institution, 1974-2009 / Edward Cecil Harris -- Recapturing history : Suriname Museum in Fort Zeelandia / Hilde Neus -- Museography and places of remembrance of slavery in Martinique or the gaps in a memory difficult to express / Christine Chivallon -- New perspectives in heritage presentations in Suriname and Curac¸ao : from Dutch colonial museums to diversifying representations of enslavement / Valika Smeulders -- New museums on the block : creation of identity in the post-independence Caribbean / Kevin Farmer -- Framing identity, encouraging diversity : recent museum developments in Barbados / Roslyn Russell -- The Memorial Museum of the Dominican Resistance : its composition and role in society / Luisa de Pena Diaz -- "Children get your culture" : museums, individualism and nationalism in Jamaica / Rebecca Tortello -- Outreach or out of reach? : seeking new audiences : the Turks and Caicos National Museum Children's Club / Nigel Sadler -- Museums and the challenge for heritage organizations in Saint Lucia / Winston F. Phulgence -- Destroying while preserving Junkanoo : the Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas / Krista Thompson
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Museums -- Caribbean Area -- History
Museums -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area
Museum techniques -- Caribbean Area
National characteristics, Caribbean.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology.
REFERENCE -- General.
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
Museum techniques
Museums
Museums -- Social aspects
National characteristics, Caribbean
Caribbean Area
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Farmer, Kevin Contributor
Cummins, Alissandra Contributor
Russell, Roslyn Contributor
ISBN 1612290744
9781612290744