Do Museums Still Need Objects? / / Steven Conn.

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• VerfasserIn: Conn, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 34 illus.

"We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million vis...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Thinking about Museums
• Chapter 1. Do Museums Still Need Objects?
• Chapter 2. Whose Objects? Whose Culture? The Contexts of Repatriation
• Chapter 3. Where Is the East?
• Chapter 4. Where Have All the Grown-Ups Gone?
• Chapter 5. The Birth and the Death of a Museum
• Chapter 6. Museums, Public Space, and Civic Identity
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgments