This vibrant new collection edited by Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers. The idea of historical consciousness - how our conception of the past informs our sense of the present and of the future - is of growing importance for cultural institutions in North America. Using case studies and observations that emerge from a Canadian context, Museums and the Past considers how the modern museum fosters public perceptions of history. Contributors focus on the ...
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This vibrant new collection edited by Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers. The idea of historical consciousness - how our conception of the past informs our sense of the present and of the future - is of growing importance for cultural institutions in North America. Using case studies and observations that emerge from a Canadian context, Museums and the Past considers how the modern museum fosters public perceptions of history. Contributors focus on the relationship between historical consciousness and museum practice and reflect on the challenges of transforming museums into dynamic civic labs and meaningful places of memory and learning. The result is an engaging range of perspectives on the contemporary museum's pedagogical and ethical responsibilities.
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New. This vibrant examination of the museum's role as contemporary narrator of our past reveals that our perceptions of history and ourselves are shaped as much by how a museum presents information as by what information it presents. Editor(s): Gosselin, Viviane. Num Pages: 624 pages, 16 b&w photos, 6 tables. BIC Classification: GM; HB; JNAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 584. 2016. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
