Reinventing the museum : historical and contemporary perspectives on the paradigm shift

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The gloom of the museum (1917) / John Cotton Dana

What is a museum? (1942) / Theodore Low

A twelve point program for museum renewal (1970) / Alma Wittlin

The museum, a temple or the forum (1971) / Duncan F. Cameron

Rethinking the museum: an emerging new paradigm (1990) / Stephen E. Weil

Museums in the age of deconstruction (1992) / Michael M. Ames

The real multiculturalism: a struggle for authority and power (1992) / Amalia Mesa-Bains

"Hey! That's mine": thoughts on pluralism and American museums (1992) / Edmund Barry Gaither

An agenda for museums in the twenty-first century (1999) / Harold Skramstad

The contextual model of learning (2000) / John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking

The museum's role in a multicultural society (1992) / Claudine K. Brown

Staying away: why people choose not to visit museums (1983) / Marilyn G. Hood

The visitors' bill of rights (2000) / Judy Rand

United states: a science in the making (1993) / C.G. Screven

Can museums be all things to all people? Missions, goals, and marketing's role (2000) / Neil Kotler, Philip Kotler

Museum exhibitions and the dynamics of dialogue (1999) / Kathleen McLean

Changing practices of interpretation (1997) / Lisa C. Roberts

Making meaning together: lessons from the field of american history (1993) / Lois H. Silverman

Is there method in our madness? Improvisation in the practice of museum education (1999) / Mary Ellen Munley

Mining the museum: an installation confronting history (1993) / Lisa G. Corrin

Evaluating the ethics and consciences of museums (1994) / Robert Sullivan

What is the object of this exercise? A meandering exploration of the many meanings of objects in museums (1999) / Elaine Heumann Gurian

Collecting then, collecting today: what's the difference? (2002) / Stephen E. Weil

Collections planning: pinning down a strategy (2002) / James B. Gardner, Elizabeth Merritt

Who cares? Conservation in a contemporary context (1999) / Carole Milner

A philosophical perspective on the ethics and resolution of cultural properties issues (1999) / Karen J. Warren

Deft deliberations (1991) / Dan L. Monroe, Walter Echo-Hawk

Deaccessioning: the american perspective (1991) / Marie C. Malaro

Creampuffs and hardball: are you really worth what you cost or just merely worthwhile? (1995) / Stephen E. Weil

The well-managed museum (1989) / Stephen E. Weil, Earl F. Cheit

Museum accountability: laws, rules, ethics, and accreditation (1991) / Willard L. Boyd

Toward a new governance (1997) / John Carver

Institution-wide change in museums (1993) / Will Phillips

Persistent paradoxes (1997) / Robert Janes