Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values
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Language: English
Published by AltaMira Press, 2009
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- Title
- Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values
- Author
- Holo and Alvarez
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0759112215
- ISBN 13
- 9780759112216
- Item weight
- 680 grams
- Dimensions
- 2.819x18.618x26.467 cm
Beyond the Turnstile argues that museums are indispensable to civil society, especially in an era in which museums often are reduced to cultural businesses or "edu-tainment" sites. Is it inevitable that a museum's success will be measured solely by how many people come through the door and how much money they spend? The eminent contributors to this volume provide museum leaders with a different set of criteria for evaluating the success of their museums, proposing a set of sustainable values that can help museums preserve themselves and advance their social mission in hard times--and help them thrive when times improve. While attendance and money will continue to count and be counted in our museums, numbers alone can never drive sustainable success. Only the unique dynamic identity that a museum can claim will do that.
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About the Author
Selma Holo is director of the Fisher Museum of Art and the International Museum Institute at the University of Southern California. Mari-Tere Alvarez is project specialist at the J. Paul Getty Museum and serves as associate director of the International Museum Institute.
The book includes essays by:
Lita Albuquerque, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Maxwell L. Anderson, Joseph Aoun, Anthony Appiah, Placido Arango, Javier Arnaldo, Leticia Azcue Brea, Elazar Barkan, Marco Barrera Bassols, Ivan Guillermo Barrios, David Bomford, Faya Causey, Elliot Davis, Alejandro de vila Blomberg, Graciela de la Torre, James Elkins, Shelly Errington, Gerardo Estrada Rodrguez, Steven Evans, James Folsom, Tom L. Freudenheim, Mara Isabel Graen Porra, Fredrik Hiebert, Selma Holo, Leonard Krishtalka, Ramiro Martinez, Gary Matthews, Charles Merewether, Carlos Monsivais, Bernard Mueller, Ilber Ortayli, Santiago Palomero, Carrie Przybilla, Nelly Robles Garca, Steven Seidel, Jon L. Seydl, Alan Shestack, Cherise Smith, Lori Starr, Gary Vikan, Vanda Vitali, Jorge Wagensberg, James Walvin, Jay Wiegel, David Wilson, and Donny George Youkhanna
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