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• ISBN: 1588340252 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9781588340252 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 1588340007 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9781588340009 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xiii, 273 pages ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c2002.

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The museum in pursuit of excellence. -- Organization-wide quality : a theory of museums and immodest proposal -- (F)FeTMu -- From being about something to being for somebody : the ongoing transformation of the American museum -- Fantasy islands -- Museums : can and do they make a difference? -- New words, familiar music : the museum as social enterprise -- Transformed from a cemetery of bric-a-brac -- The museum as a workplace. -- The distinctive numerator -- A parable of rocks and reasons -- Romance versus realism : a reflection on the nature of museums -- Museum publishing : some revolutions in progress -- If content is out, aesthetics must be in -- The museum at the end of time -- Collecting then, collecting today : what's the difference? -- Twenty-one ways to buy art -- The museum as palace. -- Courtly ghosts and aristocratic artifacts -- Reduced to art -- John Cotton Dana's New museum -- The museum in the public sphere. -- The museum and the public -- The American legal response to the problem of Holocaust art -- Fair use and the visual arts : please leave some room for Robin Hood -- Cloning and copyright -- Fair use and museum use : how close is the overlap? -- Not money, control.

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Museums > Philosophy.
Museums > Administration.
Museums > United States > Philosophy.
Museums > United States > Management.