Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture.

This work explores such questions as:

• How and why is it that museums select and arrange artefacts, shape knowledge, construct a view?
• How do museums produce values?
• How do active audiences make meaning from what they experience in museums?

This stimulating book provokes debate and discussion on these topics and puts forward the idea of a new museum - the post-museum, which will challenge the familiar modernist museum. A must for students and professionals in the field.

Author: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/28/2000
Series: Museum Meanings #4
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.62h x 6.92w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780415086332
UK Edition