Notice catalographique « Museums for the people »
- Titre
- Museums for the people
- Auteur ou éditeur
- Appleton, Josie
- Lieu de publication
- London
- Maison d'édition
- Academy of Ideas
- Date de publication
- 2001
- Résumé
- This volume of essays owes its origin to a British museum conference on the subject of museums and social responsibility that grew out of a larger debate in 1999 concerning cultural dumbing down in society as a whole. Journalist Josie Appleton's provocative title piece, around which the entire enterprise is organized, argues that "people-centered museums," fashionable since the 1990s, were constructed in the U.K under the influence of "cultural leftism," which negatively resulted in "a total reversal of the meaning and purpose of the museum." Any move away from the museum's primary focus on objects is, in her words, an "abdication of responsibility." Appleton's solution calls for the reinstatement of the museum-temple, staffed by the scholar-curator who will lead institutions back to what she identifies as a now neglected focus on scholarship and collections.
- Langue
- English = Anglais
- Sujet
- Museums - Social aspects
- Musées - Aspect social
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1-904025-01-3
- Pays
- United Kingdom
- Type de document
- Monograph = Monographie
- Localisation
- AM 7 M84
- Clé
- 13343
- Collection
- Catalogue