Making Museums Matter

Name: Making Museums Matter
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ISBN: 9781588340009

ISBN-10: 1588340007

ISBN-13: 9781588340009

Edition: 2002

Authors: Stephen Weil, Se Weil

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Weil has long been considered one of the museum community's most insightful commentators. In this volume of 29 essays, his overarching concern is that museums be able to 'earn their keep' in an environment of potentially shrinking resources.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 2/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.95" wide x 9.00" long x 2.31" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Foreword


The Museum in Pursuit of Excellence



Organization-wide Quality: A Theory of Museums and Immodest Proposal



(F)FeTMu



From Being about Something to Being for Somebody: The Ongoing Transformation of the American Museum



Fantasy Islands



Museums: Can and Do They Make a Difference?



New Words, Familiar Music: The Museum as Social Enterprise



Transformed from a Cemetery of Bric-a-brac


The Museum As Workplace



The Distinctive Numerator



A Parable of Rocks and Reasons



Romance versus Realism: A Reflection on the Nature of Museums



Museum Publishing: Some Revolutions in Progress



If Content Is Out, Aesthetics Must Be In



The Museum at the End of Time



Collecting Then, Collecting Today: What's the Difference?



Twenty-One Ways to Buy Art


The Museum As Palace



Courtly Ghosts and Aristocratic Artifacts



Reduced to Art



John Cotton Dana's New Museum


The Museum in the Public Sphere



The Museum and the Public



The American Legal Response to the Problem of Holocaust Art



Fair Use and the Visual Arts: Please Leave Some Room for Robin Hood



Cloning and Copyright



Fair Use and Museum Use: How Close Is the Overlap?



Not Money, Control