Te Papa : reinventing New Zealand's national museum, 1998-2018 /

McCarthy, Conal, 1961-

Te Papa : reinventing New Zealand's national museum, 1998-2018 / Reinventing New Zealand's national museum, nineteen ninety eight - twenty eighteen Reinventing New Zealand's national museum, 1998-2018 Conal McCarthy. - 255 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword -- Introduction: Day one -- 1. Getting to day one -- 2. A guided tour of the museum -- 3. What the staff intended... and what the critics thought -- 4. Biculturalism and beyond -- 5. The museum at work in 2017 -- 6. Learning from the first 20 years.

Published to mark 20 years since the landmark opening of Te Papa on 1998, this book by well-known museum studies academic Conal McCarthy examines the vision behind the museum, how it has evolved in the last two decades, and the particular way Te Papa goes about the business of being a national museum, with major history, natural history and art collections, in a nation with two Treaty partners.

9780994136268 0994136269

2018379869


Museum of New Zealand--History.

AM101.W4 / M23 2018

069.0993

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