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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand. : Te Papa Press ; 2018Description: 255 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780994136268
  • 0994136269
Other title:
  • Reinventing New Zealand's national museum, nineteen ninety eight - twenty eighteen
  • Reinventing New Zealand's national museum, 1998-2018
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069.0993 23
LOC classification:
  • AM101.W4 M23 2018
Contents:
Summary: 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.
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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.

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