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The Brutish Museums
Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objectsare all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of BeninCity, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
The Museums Profession
This summary of the present and future organization of the museums profession looks at how museum staff should market their museum and how they should justify and explain its economic, social and educational importance to its owners.
For Instruction and Recreation
This is the first history of the Association and Geoffrey Lewis has brought together some fascinating insights into the extent of its activity and the number of successes it achieved.
Museums UK
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Museums, Health and Well-Being
The role of museums in enhancing well-being and improving health through social intervention is one of the foremost topics of importance in the museums sector today. With an aging population and emerging policies on the social responsibilities of museums, the sector is facing an unprecedented challenge in how to develop services to meet the needs of its communities in a more holistic and inclusive way. This book sets the scene for the future of museums where the health and well-being of communities is top of the agenda. The authors draw together existing research and best practice in the area of museum interventions in health and social care and offer a detailed overview of the multifarious outcomes of such interactions, including benefits and challenges. This timely book will be essential reading for museum professionals, particularly those involved in access and education, students of museums and heritage studies, as well as practitioners of arts in health, art therapists, care and community workers.
Decolonize Museums
Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care.
Guide to the Museums
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The Museums Journal
"Indexes to papers read before the Museums Association, 1890-1909. Comp. by Charles Madeley": v. 9, p. 427-452.
The Museums of the Future (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Museums of the Future Our own Centennial Exhibition in 1876 was almost as great a revela tion to the people of the United States. The thoughts of the country were opened to many things before undreamed of. One thing we may regret - that we have no such wide-spread system of museums as that which has developed in the motherland, with South Kensington as its administrative center. Under the wise administration of the South Kensington staff, an out growth of the events of 1851, a great system of educational museums has been developed all through the United Kingdom. A similar exten sion of public museums in this country would be quite in harmony with the Spirit of the times, as ...
