Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture av Eilean (University of Leicester UK) Hooper-Greenhill

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<P>This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture.<BR><BR>This work explores such questions as:</P><UL><LI>How and why is it that museums select and arrange artefacts, shape knowledge, construct a view?</LI><LI>How do museums produce values? </LI><LI>How do active audiences make meaning from what they experience in museums?</LI></UL><P>This stimulating book provokes debate and discussion on these topics and puts forward the idea of a new museum - the post-museum, which will challenge the familiar modernist museum.  A must for students and professionals in the field.</P>