Candlin / Butler / Watts Stories from small museums

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6687-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

This book tells the story of the boom in smalls museums that took place in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interview materials, it explores why community groups, families and individuals were inspired to set up museums, teasing out the connections between personal experience and national change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Candlin, Fiona

Butler, Toby

Watts, Jake

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: founding stories, finding stories
1 Transport museums: loving objects and each other
2 War and conflict museums: muttering in the corridors of power
3 Local history museums: at the centre of the universe
4 The museum founders: getting on the footplate
Conclusions: the micromuseums boom

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Candlin Fiona:
Fiona Candlin is Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies at Birkbeck (University of London)Fiona Candlin is Professor of Museology at Birkbeck
Toby Butler is a heritage consultant and public historian
Jake Watts is a researcher in politics and social history