Description
A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary method to the observe of the improvement, roles, and significance of museums in recent society.
- Collects first-rate authentic essays by top figures from a spread of disciplines and theoretical stances, together with anthropology, art history, history, literature, sociology, cultural studies, and museum studies
- Examines the complexity of the museum from cultural, political, curatorial, historical and representational perspectives
- Covers traditional subjects, such as area, show, buildings, objects and collecting, and more recent challenges such as visiting, commerce, community and experimental exhibition forms