Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-12-13
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

This book draws on in-depth case studies and an array of international examples presenting a highly original contribution of the significant role that museums can play in confronting prejudice and cross-cultural understanding.

Author Biography

Richard Sandell is Deputy Head of the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.

Table of Contents

Museums and the Good Society
On Prejudice
Purpose, media and message: the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art and the Anne Frank House
The visitor-exhibition encounter: reconciling and rethinking museum-audience agency
Museums and the Mediascape
Displaying difference: revealing and interpreting the hidden history of disability
(Re)Framing Conversations Appendices
Investigating visitor responses: notes on methodology, research design and data sources
Buried in the Footnotes: the representation of disabled people in museum and gallery collection
Self-completion questionnaire to curators
Bibliography
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