A Museum in Public: Revisioning Canada's Royal Ontario Museum

ISBN-13: 9780367787806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 144 str.

Susan L. T. Ashley

Opis

Not satisfied with the assertion that museums have taken great strides in becoming representative, relevant and open in their preoccupations, A Museum in Public contends that the supposedly public nature of their institutional role continues to be a rhetorical one. This book critically examines museums as institutions of the public sphere

Spis treści

Part 1 SETTING THE CONTEXT; 1. Boundary Zone; 2. Publicness, Public Institutions and the Public Interest; 3. Renaissance and the ROM In Public; Part 2 THE ROM IN PUBLIC; 4. Structuring; 5. Positioning; 6. Exhibitioning; 7. Interacting; Part 3 REVISIONING; 8. Revisioning Publicness at the ROM; References

O autorze

Susan L.T. Ashley is Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries Management and AHRC Leadership Fellow in (Multi)Cultural Heritage at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She is a cultural studies scholar interested in what, how, and why heritage knowledge is created, shaped, communicated, and consumed in the public sphere. Dr Ashley has published widely, including Diverse Spaces: Identity, Heritage and Community in Canadian Public Culture (2013). She has 20 years of experience with culture and heritage sites across Canada.