Fragments of the World: Uses of Museum Collections

by Suzanne Keene

Book Overview

During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum collections as a whole are enormous in size and quantity and the question of how can they can be put to best use is ever present. When conventional exhibitions can only ever utilise a tiny proportion of them, what other uses of the collections are possible? Will their exploitation and use now destroy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075066472X
• ISBN13: 9780750664721
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"