Museums in a Troubled World: Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse?

ISBN-13: 9780415463010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str.

Robert R Janes

Opis

Museums are rarely acknowledged in the global discussion of climate change, environmental degradation, the inevitability of depleted fossil fuels, and the myriad local issues concerning the well-being of particular communities - suggesting the irrelevance of museums as social institutions. This book explores the meaning and role of museums.

Spis treści

Prologue Time Immemorial  The Willow Lakers  The Curator  The Exhibit Technician The Chief Executive Officer  The Future  1. Museums and Irrelevance  Troubling Questions  Sobering Assumptions  Uncertainty, Elitism and Myopia  2. A Troubled World The Absence of Stewardship  A Troubled World  Our Lethal Footprint  A Virtual Impression  Killing Our Relatives – Close and Distant  Enter Museums  Homogenizing the Ethnosphere  Diagnosing the Assault on Stewardship  3. It’s a Jungle in Here: Museums and their Self-Inflicted Challenges  The Three Agendas  The Fallacy of Authoritative Neutrality  The Lone Museum Director  Management Myopia  The Consequences of Hierarchy: Learning from Hunters  Museum Exhibitions: Ploughing Old Ground  Collections: Museums as Consumption  4. Debunking the Marketplace  Corporatism Has Arrived Back to the Beginning  A Clash of Values  The Anatomy of Failure  Courting the Corporatists: A Cautionary Tale  Business Literacy  Methods Aren’t Values  5. Searching for Resilience? Resilient Innovators  Why Resilience?  Resilient Values  Assuming Responsibility  6. The Mindful Museum  Mindfulness  Museum Chatter  Thinking Orthogonally  Museum Mindfulness  Museums for a Troubled World  7. Museums: Stewards or Spectators? A Brief Retrospective  The Consequences of Ignoring the Present  Renewal – Denial is Not An Alternative  In Praise of Museums

 

O autorze

Robert R. Janes