Re-imagining the Museum

Re-imagining the Museum
Author: Andrea Witcomb
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2003
Genre: Cultural policy
ISBN: 0415220998

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book presents new interpretations of museum history and practices. Engaging with a variety of commentators, the text discusses museums in terms of their relationship with the media and their role in modern society.

Re-imagining the Museum

Re-imagining the Museum
Author: Andrea Witcomb
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2003
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 041522098X

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book presents new interpretations of museum history and practices. Engaging with a variety of commentators, the text discusses museums in terms of their relationship with the media and their role in modern society.

Controversy in Science Museums

Controversy in Science Museums
Author: Erminia Pedretti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0429017758

Controversy in Science Museums focuses on exhibitions that approach sensitive or controversial topics. With a keen sense of past and current practices, Pedretti and Navas Iannini examine and re-imagine how museums and science centres can create exhibitions that embrace criticality and visitor agency. Drawing on international case studies and voices from visitors and museum professionals, as well as theoretical insights about scientific literacy and science communication, the authors explore the textured notion of controversy and the challenges and opportunities practitioners may encounter as they plan for and develop controversial science exhibitions. They assert that science museums can no longer serve as mere repositories for objects or sites for transmitting facts, but that they should also become spaces for conversations that are inclusive, critical, and socially responsible. Controversy in Science Museums provides an invaluable resource for museum professionals who are interested in creating and hosting controversial exhibitions, and for scholars and students working in the fields of museum studies, science communication, and social studies of science. Anyone wishing to engage in an examination and critique of the changing roles of science museums will find this book relevant, timely, and thought provoking.

Reimagining Museums for Climate Action

Reimagining Museums for Climate Action
Author: Rodney Harrison
Publisher: Museums for Climate Action
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1739971515

This book is not a typical academic edited volume. Nor does it subscribe to the usual dictates of an exhibition catalogue. It does not seek to provide a comprehensive overview of work on climate change and museums or claim to have discovered One Quick Trick to Solve the Climate Emergency. Instead, the book reflects the main characteristics of the Reimagining Museums for Climate Action project: it is collaborative, distributed, conversational, subversive, nomadic and, at times, playful. The arguments it puts forward emerge through dialogue and speculation just as much as they respond to and build on empirical research. In this sense, the book is perhaps best seen as a partial and in many ways still evolving artefact of the Reimagining Museums project. It can be read from cover-to-cover, or its varied contents can be traversed in a less rigid fashion. It is one “output” among many, and its main aim is to prompt further transdisciplinary alliances, rather than set out a particular position or manifesto. To this end, the book invites peripatetic readings and strange deviations. It is anchored by eight concepts that reflect the diversity and creativity of museums, but it is also motivated by a desire to (re)situate this field within a broader set of debates on the roots of social and environmental injustice, and the role of museums in these histories.

Re-imagining Ireland

Re-imagining Ireland
Author: Andrew Higgins Wyndham
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780813925448

Accompanying DVD is a videorecording of the television program produced by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Paul Wagner Productions in association with Radio Telefís Éireann, and originally broadcast in 2004.

Re-imagining Heritage Interpretation

Re-imagining Heritage Interpretation
Author: Dr Russell Staiff
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2014-02-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1472407350

This book challenges traditional approaches to heritage interpretation and offers an alternative theoretical architecture to the current research and practice. Russell Staiff suggests that the dialogue between visitors and heritage places has been too focused on learning outcomes, and so heritage interpretation has become dominated by psychology and educational theory, and over-reliant on outdated thinking. Using his background as an art historian and experience teaching heritage and tourism courses, Russell Staiff weaves personal observation with theory in an engaging and lively way. He recognizes that the 'digital revolution' has changed forever the way that people interact with their environment and that a new approach is needed.

Re-imagining the Contemporary Museum

Re-imagining the Contemporary Museum
Author: Carlo Aiello
Publisher: eVolo Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1938740165

The architecture for performance and exhibition, being museums, galleries, music halls, pavilions, etc., has been in the leading edge of architectural innovation throughout the history and evolution of the discipline. Architects and designers experiment on new aesthetics, concepts, and ideas with projects that tend to have a flexible program and a large budget. In many cases, the main requirement of such structures is not only to accommodate a specific program but also to inspire the imagination of its users and challenge the current state of architectural design. Some examples, such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry or the Sydney Opera House by Jørn Utzon are considered design masterpieces of the 20th Century. Gehry’s Museum transformed the city of Bilbao from a small industrial Spanish city into a world destination, while Utzon’s Opera House become the symbol of Sydney and Australia. Re-imagining the Contemporary Museum studies the most innovative examples of performance and exhibition architecture today. These are projects that revolutionize architecture on many levels, including sustainability, aesthetics, technology, and urban design. It is interesting to point out that these works are not concentrated in one specific region, but are located in every corner of the globe; from MVRDV’s Comic and Animation Museum in China, to the new Broad Museum in Los Angeles by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, or Kengo Kuma’s Victoria and Albert Museum in Dundee, Scotland.

The Great Reimagining

The Great Reimagining
Author: Bree T. Hocking
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 178238622X

While sectarian violence has greatly diminished on the streets of Belfast and Derry, proxy battles over the right to define Northern Ireland’s identity through its new symbolic landscapes continue. Offering a detailed ethnographic account of Northern Ireland’s post-conflict visual transformation, this book examines the official effort to produce new civic images against a backdrop of ongoing political and social struggle. Interviews with politicians, policymakers, community leaders, cultural workers, and residents shed light on the deeply contested nature of seemingly harmonized urban landscapes in societies undergoing radical structural change. Here, the public art process serves as a vital means to understanding the wider politics of a transforming public sphere in an age of globalization and transnational connectivity.

Re-imagining the Modern American West

Re-imagining the Modern American West
Author: Richard W. Etulain
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1996-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780816516834

Describes changes in how the West has been seen, from a male-dominated frontier, to a region with a powerful sense of place, to a modern center of both genders, ethnic groups, and environmental interests

Reimagining Historic House Museums

Reimagining Historic House Museums
Author: Kenneth C. Turino
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1442272996

Creating tours, school programs, and other interpretive activities at historic house museums are among the most effective ways to engage the public in the history of their community and yet many organizations fail to achieve their potential. This guide describes the essential elements of successful interpretation: content, audience, and methods.