Product Description

An authoritative collection of essays on European museums struggling to adapt in a changing world. Includes discussions on all types of museums, as well as the role of the museum as educator and communicator.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1691983 in Books
• Published on: 1994-02-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 220 pages

From the Back Cover
Towards the Museum of the Future explores, through a series of authoritative essays, some of the major developments in European museums as they struggle to adapt in a rapidly changing world. It embraces a wide range of European countries, all types of museums and exhibitions and the needs of different museum audiences, and discusses the museum as communicator and educator in the context of current cultural concerns. Toward the Museum of the Future reviews the major current concerns in European museums through a series of specially-commissioned, authoritative essays. Written against a background of unprecedented change in museums and society, the essays explore how museums are variously attempting to maintain their role in a culturally and politically unstable world. The essays present a wide range of sometimes contradictory views on museums, exhibitions and museum education. They embrace case studies, general reviews and theoretical analyses, and are written from a variety of practical and theoretical points of view. Areas covered include European museums and the people who visit them; museums and the media; museums and exhibition design; the educational significance of museums in formal and informal settings. This is the first book to approach current problems from such a wide perspective. Its authors, from seven coutries, provide comprehensive coverage ranging not just geographically across Europe, but over most type of exhibitions and audiences in science, history and art museums. Roger Miles is Head of the Department of Public Services at the Natural History Museum in London, where he has been responsible for a long series of major exhibitions for the general public. Lauro Zavala is Professor in the Department of Education and Communication at the,P--- Metropolitan Autonomous University at Xochimilco in Mexico City. Q---THE HERITAGE: CARE PRESERVATION MANAGEMENT Editor in chief Andrew Wheatcroft The Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management programme has been designed to serve the needs of the museum and heritage community worldwide. It publishes books and information servicesw for professional museums and heritage workers, and for all organisation that service the museum community. The programme has been devised with advice and assistance of the leading institutions in the museum and heritage community, both at an international level, with ICOM and ICOMOS, with the national and local museum organisations and with individual specialists drawn every continent.