Museums and Community - Ideas, Issues and Challenges

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Crooke Klappentext Combining research that stretches across all of the social sciences and international case studies! Elizabeth Crooke here explores the dynamics of the relationship between the community and the museum.Focusing strongly on areas such as Northern Ireland! South Africa! Australia and North America to highlight the complex issues faced by museums and local groups! Crooke examines one of the museum's primary responsibilities - working with different communities and using collections to encourage people to learn about their own histories! and to understand other people's.Arguing for a much closer examination of this concept of community! and of the significance of museums to different communities! Museums and Community is a dynamic look at a relationship that has! in modern times! never been more important. Zusammenfassung Combining research that stretches across all of the social sciences, her own personal research and international case studies, Elizabeth Crooke’s book here explores the dynamics of the relationship between the community and the museum. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The appeal of community, museums and heritage 2. Understanding community 3. Community development and the UK museum sector 4. Social capital and the cultural sector 5. Museums, cultural diversity and multiculturalism 6. Museums and community relations in Northern Ireland 7. Museums and community movements Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Crooke, Elizabeth (University of Ulster Crooke, Crooke Elizabeth
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.2008
• EAN: 9780415336567
• ISBN: 978-0-415-33656-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 248 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Museum Meanings; Museum Meanings
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc