Explores the museums as a site of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community. This book focuses on the museum as an institution, and its social and cultural setting, and examines how museums use their roles as informers and educators to empower, or to ignore, communities. Editor(s): Watson, Sheila. Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies. Num Pages: 592 pages, maps. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1202. . 2007. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Museums and their Communities
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 041540259X
ISBN 13: 9780415402590
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Using case studies drawn from all areas of museum studies, Museums and their Communities explores the museums as a site of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community.

Focusing on the museum as an institution, and its social and cultural setting, Sheila Watson examines how museums use their roles as informers and educators to empower, or to ignore, communities.

Looking at the current debates about the role of the museum, she considers contested values in museum functions and examines provision, power, ownership, responsibility, and institutional issues.

This book is of great relevance for all disciplines as it explores and questions the role of the museum in modern society.

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Sheila Watson is a lecturer in the Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.

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