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Museums, Society, Inequality
Contributor(s): Sandell, Richard (Editor)
ISBN: 0415260604     ISBN-13: 9780415260602
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $49.39  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2002
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Annotation: "Museums, Society, Inequality" explores the wide-ranging social roles and responsibilities of the museum. It brings together diverse international perspectives from across the globe, which collectively seek to stimulate critical debate, to inform the work of practitioners and policy makers, and to advance recognition of the agency of museums. This unusual collection gives valuable insight on the museum's relationship to the outside community, and its essential role as a social institution that influences, and must respond to, the changing characteristics and concerns of society.
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BISAC Categories:
- Reference
- Art | History - General
Dewey: 069
LCCN: 2001049112
Lexile Measure: 1430
Series: Museum Meanings (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.9" W x 9.84" (1.25 lbs) 292 pages
 
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Museums, Society, Inequality explores the wide-ranging social roles and responsibilities of the museum.

It brings together international perspectives to stimulate critical debate, inform the work of practitioners and policy makers, and to advance recognition of the purpose, responsibilities and value to society of museums.

Museums, Society, Inequality examines the issues and

  • offers different understandings of the social agency of the museum
  • presents ways in which museums have sought to engage with social concerns, and instigate social change
  • imagines how museums might become more useful to society in future.

This book is essential for all museum academics, practitioners and students.