Taylor & Francis Ltd - Histories Of Exhibition Design In The Museum Makers Process And Practice - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum: Makers Process and Practice offers a new model for understanding exhibition design in museums as a human and material process. It presents diverse case studies from around the world from the nineteenth century to the recent past. It moves beyond the power of the finished exhibition over both objects and visitors to highlight historic exhibition making as an ongoing task of adaptation experimentation and interaction that involves intellectual creative and technical choices. Attentive to hierarchies of ethnicity race class gender sexuality and ableism that have informed exhibition design and its histories the volume highlights the labour involved in making museum exhibitions. It presents design as filled with personal and professional demands on the body senses and emotions. Contributions from historians anthropologists and exhibition makers focus on histories of identity collaboration and hierarchy behind the scenes of the museum. They argue for an emphasis on the everyday objects of museum design and the importance of a diverse range of actors within and beyond the museum from carpenters and label writers to volunteers and local communities. Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum offers scholars students and professionals working across the museum and design sectors insight into how past methods still influence museums today. Through a postcolonial and decolonial lens it reveals the lineage of current processes and supports a more informed contemporary practice.
Title: Histories Of Exhibition Design In The Museum Makers Process And Practice
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032156934
Pages: 276 Pages, 19 Halftones, Color; 45 Halftones, Black And White; 19 Illustrations, Color; 45 Illustrat
Publication Date: 11/30/2023
Series: Museum Making
Category: Social Groups