The politics of display :  museums, science, culture / 
edited by Sharon Macdonald. 
 - xiii, 246 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> List of figures --  Notes on contributors --  Preface --  Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibition: an introduction to the politics of display --  Speaking to the eyes: museums, legibility and the social order --  The visibility of difference: nineteenth-century French anthropological collections --  Reifying race: science and art in Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History --  Making nature 'real' again: natural history exhibits and public rhetorics of science at the Smithsonian Institution in the early 1960s --  On interactivity: consumers, citizens and culture --  Supermarket science? Consumers and 'the public understanding of science' --  Nations on display: technology and culture in Expo '92 --  Strangers in paradise: an encounter with fossil man at the Dutch Museum of Natural History --  Can science museums take history seriously? --  Birth and Breeding: politics on display at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine --  Balancing acts: science, Enola Gay and History Wars at the Smithsonian --  Afterword: from war to debate? --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415153263 9780415153263 0415153255 9780415153256 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97003319 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Museum exhibits--Political aspects<br/>Science museums--Exhibitions--Political aspects.<br/>Exhibitions--Political aspects<br/>Popular culture--Political aspects<br/>Political correctness
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>AM151.  / P65 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>069.5