Title:
Museum languages : objects and texts / edited by Gaynor Kavanagh.
Author:
Kavanagh, Gaynor.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The business of museums is to explain the past by showing and explaining material culture (objects, things) to visitors. Much effort has been devoted to improving the presentation to the objects themselves, and even more to explaining their importance, their context and their relevance. This book is a critical examination of the techniques used today, their success or failure and the connections between recent work in museums and contemporary studies of text, meaning, signs and symbols.
Publisher:
Leicester University Press,
Publication Place:
Leicester ; New York :
ISBN:
0718513592
Subject:
Museums -- Management.
Museum techniques -- Evaluation.
Popular culture -- Museums -- Exhibitions -- Evaluation.
Physical Description:
vi, 180 p. ;
Publication Date:
1991.
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