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- Book Review: Museum Revolutions
Journal of Folklore Research (Reviewed by Carrie Hertz) Museum Revolutions: How Museums Change and Are Changed, edited by Simon J. Knell, Suzanne MacLeod, and Sheila Watson. 2007. London and New York: Routledge. Museums—wishing to do good in the world,...
- New Book: Loot
Sharon Waxman Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World by Sharon Waxman Why are the Elgin Marbles in London, and not on the Acropolis? Why do there seem to be as many mummies in French museums as there are in Egypt? Why are so many...
- Csusb Museum Secures Future
San Bernardino Sun (Michael Sorba) The home of the largest display of Egyptian artifacts west of the Mississippi River was recently awarded the American Association of Museums' highest recognition - accreditation. The Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum...
- Zahi Hawass - Dig Days
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/818/he3.htm This link was broken yesterday, but is now up and running - Zahi Hawass discusses Egyptian museums: "Museums in Egypt are entering a new era. New institutions are being constructed, and there is a change from...
- Repatriation Story
This is an excellent article on Africa trying to reclaim its cultural heritage from western museums with the author talking about the recent gathering of representatives in Cairo. The Cairo conference was led by the Egyptian Vice Minister of culture Dr....
Egypt
Book Review: Museums and Difference
Journal of Folklore Research
Museums and Difference. Edited by Daniel J. Sherman. 2008. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Reviewed by Lee Haring, Brooklyn College (Emeritus)
The essays in this two-part book explore the central force of “difference” in the organization and conception of museums. The project, says the editor, is to understand the mutual constitution of museums and of categories of difference “as a complex historical process, but also as an active phenomenological challenge to those who work in and on museums” (3-4). Part 1 is titled “Representing Difference.” Andrew McClellan’s “Art Museums and Commonality, a History of High Ideals” (25-59) admirably shows the art-museum concept of itself to have been obliged to take in cultural artifacts of people around the world. Comprehensive history of trends and influences--for instance an incisive critique of Edward Steichen’s photographic exhibition “The Family of Man”--and the opening of museums to contemporary social forces give this essay pride of place.
See the above page for the full story.
- Book Review: Museum Revolutions
Journal of Folklore Research (Reviewed by Carrie Hertz) Museum Revolutions: How Museums Change and Are Changed, edited by Simon J. Knell, Suzanne MacLeod, and Sheila Watson. 2007. London and New York: Routledge. Museums—wishing to do good in the world,...
- New Book: Loot
Sharon Waxman Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World by Sharon Waxman Why are the Elgin Marbles in London, and not on the Acropolis? Why do there seem to be as many mummies in French museums as there are in Egypt? Why are so many...
- Csusb Museum Secures Future
San Bernardino Sun (Michael Sorba) The home of the largest display of Egyptian artifacts west of the Mississippi River was recently awarded the American Association of Museums' highest recognition - accreditation. The Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum...
- Zahi Hawass - Dig Days
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/818/he3.htm This link was broken yesterday, but is now up and running - Zahi Hawass discusses Egyptian museums: "Museums in Egypt are entering a new era. New institutions are being constructed, and there is a change from...
- Repatriation Story
This is an excellent article on Africa trying to reclaim its cultural heritage from western museums with the author talking about the recent gathering of representatives in Cairo. The Cairo conference was led by the Egyptian Vice Minister of culture Dr....