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Great expectations : reflections on museums and Canada

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  • Author: Lohman, Jack
    Contributor: Royal British Columbia Museum
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    2019
    Summary:

    "A provocative, progressive rejoinder to the status quo, from the perspective of a disrupter and global leader in the museum world. The challenge to transform museums is unapologetically real and complicated. But everything we learn about reconciliation, science and biodiversity, climate change, and sustainability gives us the confidence and freedom to break through the conventions of the past. Each essay in this collection emphasises key features that are driving change in museums, such as globalization, society, authenticity, and technology. Each raises anew older themes within the canon of museology: information versus knowledge, diversity and plurality, the unending accumulation of objects and the incompleteness of collections, modes of perception, and insularity. What emerges is a new way of being a museum that is outward looking and global, and which includes chaos and surprise."--

    Contents:
    • Great expectations : seven years in Canada
    • Museums' moral future
    • A long-term strategy for reuniting indigenous culture
    • Canada as a safe haven for museum objects
    • Embracing family
    • Collections and their communities
    • How committed are museums to cultural contact?
    • Canada and China : old museums, new impulses
    • Canada and China : discovering our common agenda
    • Museums and Canada : leading by uniting.
    Original Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia, Royal BC Musum
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780772673404, 0772673403, 9780772673398, 9780772673060, 0772673063, 9780772673046, 0772673047