Date sent: 27-JAN-1994
 
 
I just joined this list and not knowing its protocol wondered if there was any
interest in making papers available for discussion--posting shorter ones to the
list, sending longer ones out on demand, or archiving them for ftp access.
 
Several recent postings raise issues that specially interest me and I address
them in a paper that I delivered last November at the Chicago Art Institute for
their symposium Museums, Nations, Identities.  The paper is titled Destination
Museum:  How Tourism Informs Museum Practice and Experience.  The central
example is Plimoth Plantation.
 
Speaking of which, I highly recommend Stephen Snow's new book,
Performing the Pilgrims:  A Study of Ethnohistorical Role-Playing at Plimoth
Plantation.  My paper draws on material from the foreword that I wrote for that
book.  University Press of Mississippi, 1993
 
I'd welcome the opportunity to continue to discuss museums and tourism.
 
 
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Department of Performance Studies
New York University
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