The Changing Museum: A History of New Walk Museum

ISBN-13: 9780367257866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 296 str.

UK) Gray Clive (University of Warwick

Opis

Using the example of New Walk Museum, Leicester, and its’ collections, the complexity, multi-causality, and reasons for change in museums are examined and explained. The 170 years history of New Walk provides an original basis and innovative approach to be adopted towards explaining museum change.

Spis treści

1. The Changing Museum; 2. Origins and ‘One Damn Thing After Another’; 3. Collections and Practices; 4. The Museum in Society: Social Change and the Museum; 5. Paying the Piper…: Finance, Economics and the Museum; 6. …And Calling the Tune: Local Politics, National Politics and the Local Museum; 7 The Professionalised Museum: Changing Museum Managements; 8 The Instrumentalised Museum: Whose Interests Does the Museum Serve?; 9 ‘Semper Eadem’?: Stability and Change at New Walk.

O autorze

Clive Gray is an Associate Professor of Cultural Policy at the University of Warwick. He has published widely on cultural policy, policymaking in museums, the politics of the arts and of museums, and the relationship of the state with culture. This is his fifth book.