I'd recommend Gail Anderson's Reinventing the Museum, published by
AltaMira last year.  

Mitch Allen
Left Coast Press, Inc.
1630 N. Main St, #400
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
925 935-3380 phone and fax
www.LCoastPress.com
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Museology course textbook(s)
> From: John Martinson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, August 16, 2005 2:16 pm
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Is there a good, up to date text for classes in museology, museum
> theory, museum 
> studies to give students a good general background in theory?  My
> resources are likely
> outdated.   Any recommendations for such a class on a college level?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> John
> Boise, ID
> 
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