Changing Museum - A History of New Walk Museum

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Clive Gray, Clive (University of Warwick Gray, Gray Clive
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032380261
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3238026-1
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; History, HISTORY / General, REFERENCE / General, ART / Museum Studies, Library, archive and information management, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Encyclopaedias and reference works, Encyclopaedias & Reference Works, Library, Archive & Information Management