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Rethinking the museum and other meditations / Stephen E. Weil.

Weil, Stephen E. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0874749484 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780874749489 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0874749530 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780874749533 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xviii, 173 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1990.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Rethinking the museum: Enough museums? ; Fighting off some dry rot, woodworm, and damp ; A meditation on small and large museums ; The proper business of the museum : ideas or things? ; Rethinking the museum : an emerging new paradigm -- Museum management : workers, collections, and other concerns: The well-managed museum / Earl F. Cheit, co-author ; In pursuit of a profession : the status of museum work in America ; Coleman's vision of the museum worker : is it still valid today? ; The more effective director : specialist or generalist? ; Deaccession practices in American museums ; Deaccesioning modern and contemporary art : some notes on the American experience ; Too much art? ; The Museum Management Institute : its genesis and early years ; Review : the arts and public policy in the United States -- Repose and other brief legal notes: Repose (Afterword: Guggenheim extract from 1989 litigation update) ; Who owns the Nataraja? ; Legal aspects of the display of imitations ; A meditation on work ; Art, law, and utopia.
Subject:
Museums > Administration.
Museum techniques > Evaluation.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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