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Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Eileen Hooper Greenhill
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-01-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time, when fund
Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Categories: Collectors and collecting
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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Drawing on numerous case studies, Hooper-Greenhill presents a critical survey of major changes in current assumptions about the nature of museums, and argues th
Museums and Their Visitors
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-15 - Publisher: Routledge

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A guide for museum and gallery staff in the development of provision for their visitors, to ensure survival into the next century.
The Educational Role of the Museum
Language: en
Pages: 366
Authors: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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Grounded in the strengths of its first edition, this book has been restructured to include new papers and recent articles, and presents front-running theory and
From Knowledge to Narrative
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Lisa C. Roberts
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-15 - Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

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From Knowledge to Narrative shows that museum educators—professionals responsible for making collections intelligble to viewers—have become central figures