ABSTRACT
A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the USA and Canada.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|61 pages
The Landscape of Nostalgia
chapter 2|27 pages
The Making of the English Working Past
A Critical View of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum
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part 2|109 pages
Museums in a Changing World
chapter 8|26 pages
‘Astonished and Somewhat Terrified'
The Preservation and Development of Aural Culture
part 3|36 pages
Sociology of the Museum Public