MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD

Museums of World Religions: Displaying the Divine, Shaping Cultures 9781350016248, 9781350016279, 9781350016262

Critically examining the notion of ‘world religions’, Charles Orzech examines and compares five purpose-built museums of

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Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520952492

Focusing on black Americans’ participation in world’s fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museum

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Views of Violence: Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials 9781789201277

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the S

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The Enemy on Display: The Second World War in Eastern European Museums 9781782382188

Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprising

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Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display 9780520961456

What can we learn about nationalism by looking at a country’s cultural institutions? How do the history and culture of p

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Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums 9780773587465

The ways in which Aboriginal people and museums work together have changed drastically in recent decades. This historic

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Holocaust Memory Reframed: Museums and the Challenges of Representation 9780813565255

Holocaust memorials and museums face a difficult task as their staffs strive to commemorate and document horror. On the

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National Museums: New Studies from around the World 9780415547734, 9780415547741, 0415547733, 0415547741

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Remix: Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas 9780520960114

Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix aims to change the disc

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Museums and the Challenge of Change: Old Institutions in a New World [1 ed.] 0367488299, 9780367488291

Museums and the Challenge of Change explores the profound challenges facing museums and charts ways forward that are gro

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