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

ISBN-13: 9781138579262 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 136 str.

Susan 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, questioning what assumptions are made about the publicness of their operations. Using as a case study the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Canada’s largest museum, the book interrogates the public nature and political dynamics of the ROM as it completed a multi-million dollar architectural project and adopted a new vision of the museum.

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