Thank you all for your suggestions--- I am sure they will be very
helpful!
Kk
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:32 PM
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Subject: Re: reading recommendations
Krista,
I am a graduate, museum studies student at George Washington
University. I
have obviously read and studied numerous museum related books and
articles.
Here are some general resources that may be helpful: (If your friend's
thesis
has a particular concentration I may be able to suggested some more
sources)
Museums and memory / edited by Susan A. Crane. Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford
University Press, c2000
Art and artifact : the museum as medium / James Putnam New York, N.Y. :
Thames
& Hudson, 2001.
The birth of the museum : history, theory, politics / Tony Bennett.
London ;
New York : Routledge, 1995.
Grasping the world : the idea of the museum / edited by Donald Preziosi
and
Claire Farago. Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2003.
Museums and the interpretation of visual culture / Eilean
Hooper-Greenhill.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Museum governance : mission, ethics, policy / Marie C. Malaro.
Washington,D.C.
: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994
The civic value of museums, by T. R. Adam. New York, American
association for
adult education, 1937
Museums in motion : an introduction to the history and functions of
museums /
Edward P. Alexander ; foreword by William T. Alderson. Nashville :
American
Association for State and Local History, c1979.
The American Association of Museums' website may be a good resource too,
www.aam-us.org.
Erin Hunsaker
Graduate Student
The George Washington University
Museum Studies Program
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