Timothy W. Luke
Copyright Date: 2002
Edition: NED - New edition
Published
by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 296
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsz7n
Book Description:
In this important volume, Timothy W. Luke explores museums’s power to shape collective values and social understandings, and argues persuasively that museum exhibitions have a profound effect on the body politic. Through discussions of topics ranging from how the National Holocaust Museum and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles have interpreted the Holocaust to the ways in which the American Museum of Natural History, the Missouri Botanical Gardens, and Tucson’s Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum have depicted the natural world, Luke exposes the processes through which museums challenge but more often affirm key cultural and social realities.
eISBN: 978-0-8166-8401-4
Subjects: Political Science