TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conn,Steven
TI  - Do museums still need objects
T2  - The arts and intellectual life in modern America
SN  - 0812241908
AV  - AM11 .C63 2010
U1  - 069.09730904 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Museums
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Museum exhibits
KW  - Collection management
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Art objects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-255) and index; Introduction: Thinking about museums -- Do museums still need objects? -- Whose objects? Whose culture? The contexts of repatriation -- Where is the East? -- Where have all the grown-ups gone? -- The birth and the death of a museum -- Museums, public space, and civic identity
N2  - Conn ranges across a wide variety of museum types--from art and anthropology to science and commercial museums--asking questions about the relationship between museums and knowledge, about the connection between culture and politics, about the role of museums in representing non-Western societies, and about public institutions and the changing nature of their constituencies
ER  -