New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction

Copyright © 2006 Blackwell Publishing

New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction

Editor(s): Janet Marstine

Published Online: 25 FEB 2008

Print ISBN: 9781405105583

Online ISBN: 9780470776230

DOI: 10.1002/9780470776230

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New Museum Theory and Practice is an original collection of essays with a unique focus: the contested politics and ideologies of museum exhibition.


  • Contains 12 original essays that contribute to the field while creating a collective whole for course use.
  • Discusses theory through vivid examples and historical overviews.
  • Offers guidance on how to put theory into practice.
  • Covers a range of museums around the world: from art to history, anthropology to music, as well as historic houses, cultural centres, virtual sites, and commercial displays that use the conventions of the museum.
  • Authors come from the UK, Canada, the US, and Australia, and from a variety of fields that inform cultural studies.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xiii)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–36)

      Janet Marstine

  3. Part I: Defining New Museum Theory - A: Surveys and Groundwork

    1. Chapter 1

      The Architecture is the Museum (pages 37–63)

      Michaela Giebelhausen

    2. Chapter 2

      Feminist Curatorial Strategies and Practices Since the 1970S (pages 64–84)

      Katy Deepwell

    3. Chapter 3

      New Art, New Challenges: The Changing Face of Conservation in the Twenty-First Century (pages 85–105)

      Rachel Barker and Patricia Smithen

  4. Part I: Defining New Museum Theory - B: Case Studies in Contemporary Practice

    1. Chapter 4

      How we Study History Museums: Or Cultural Studies at Monticello (pages 109–128)

      Eric Gable

    2. Chapter 5

      Spectacle and Democracy: Experience Music Project as a Post-Museum (pages 129–151)

      Chris Bruce

    3. Chapter 6

      Revealing and Concealing: Museums, Objects, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia (pages 152–177)

      Moira G. Simpson

    4. Chapter 7

      Restructuring South African Museums:Reality and Rhetoric within Cape Town (pages 178–199)

      Julie L. McGee

  5. Part II: Looking to the Future: Theory into Practice

    1. Chapter 8

      The Critical Museum Visitor (pages 201–225)

      Margaret Lindauer

    2. Chapter 9

      Visiting the Virtual Museum: Art and Experience Online (pages 226–246)

      Lianne McTavish

    3. Chapter 10

      Reframing Studio Art Production and Critique (pages 247–265)

      Helen Klebesadel

    4. Chapter 11

      The University Museum and Gallery: A Site for Institutional Critique and a Focus of the Curriculum (pages 266–291)

      Lyndel King and Janet Marstine

    5. Chapter 12

      Museum Archives as Resources for Scholarly Research and Institutional Identity (pages 292–307)

      Lois Marie Fink

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      Bibliography (pages 308–321)

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      Index (pages 322–332)

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