Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture
Description
Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.
PUBLISHER:
Smithsonian
ISBN-10:
156098189X
ISBN-13:
9781560981893
BINDING:
Paperback
BISAC:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
PUBLICATION YEAR:
1992
NUMBER OF PAGES:
624
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
1.34(H) x 5.98(W) x 8.96(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / adult
LANGUAGE:
English