This volume offers a critical-creative reflection on the academic practice of museology, taking the form of a narrative account of museological fieldwork. A research story unfolds, challenging academic conventions at the level of its own presentation.
This volume offers a critical-creative reflection on the academic practice of museology, taking the form of a narrative account of museological fieldw...
One might believe that museum studies is a stable field of academic inquiry based on a set of familiar institutional forms and functions. But as institutions museums have never been stable or singular, and neither has the discipline of museum studies. Museum studies as a field of academic inquiry has received little critical attention. One result of this neglect has arguably been a lack of invention in museum studies; another is the distancing of academic museum studies from museum practice.
Doing Museology Differently charts a different course. A critical creative...
One might believe that museum studies is a stable field of academic inquiry based on a set of familiar institutional forms and functions. But as in...
