Museums & Social Issues: A Journal of Reflective Discourse

ISBN-13: 9781138404885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Elizabeth A. Bollwerk

Opis

This book focuses on community engagement in museum and archaeological contexts. It shows how the process of opening authority through engagement is implicitly and explicitly connected to a variety of social issues and, as a consequence, is a social issue in itself.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Footprints of the Ancestors-Reengaging Hopi Youth with Their Culture 3. Chicago Cultural Alliance-Promoting Social Change and Cultural Diversity 4. From Memory to Action-Multisited Visitor Action at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 5. Engaging Chicago's Communities in Climate Action 6. Paradoxes in Designs for New Philadelphia National Historic Landmark 7. The C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa-Community Engagement at an Archaeological Site 8. To Form a More Perfect Union-National Civil Rights Museum 9. Public Art and Exhibitions Made for a Social Purpose 10. Museums as Third Places or What?-Accessing the Social Without Reservations 11. Concluding Comments

O autorze

Elizabeth A. Bollwerk, Natalye B. Tate, Robert P. Connolly