Making city histories in museums / edited by Gaynor Kavanagh and Elizabeth Frostick.
Material type: TextSeries: Making histories in museumsPublisher: Washington, DC : Leicester University Press, 1998Description: xii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 071850030X
- 9780718500306
- 307.76074 21
- HT113 .M36 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Buttons, Belisha Beacons and Bullets: City Histories in Museums -- 2. Razor Ribbons, History Museums and Civic Salvation -- 3. City Museums and Their Role in a Divided Community: The Northern Ireland Experience -- 4. Croydon: What History? -- 5. The City Museum: Who Comes? -- 6. Approaches to Portraying the City in European Museums -- 7. Collections and Collecting -- 8. Brave New World: The Future for City History Museums -- 9. Breaking down the Barriers of Ignorance -- 10. Envisioning Cities: London -- 11. Defining Cities: Socio-geographical Perspectives -- 12. The Discovery Centre at Millennium Point, Birmingham -- Index.
"Museums are a city phenomenon, one element within a suite of cultural institutions which most major urban centres support. In the nineteenth century, museums were established as evidence of urban sophistication, a credential of new and enlightened local government. They aimed to provide vistas significantly broader than the local. Today, however, the agenda is very different. Within the majority of cities there are museums dedicated to exploring the city itself. The approach and range of interests vary enormously, yet what these museums have in common is their commitment to construct or propose an image of the city suitable for the times, one with which a broad spectrum of people can engage." "The contributors consider the making of city histories from very different perspectives and within a number of theoretical frameworks. They use case studies and comparisons of practice; in particular, good practice is highlighted and potential ways forward explored."--BOOK JACKET.
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