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A museum in public = revisioning Canada's Royal Ontario Museum /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A museum in public/ Susan L.T. Ashley.
Reminder of title:	revisioning Canada's Royal Ontario Museum /
Author:	Ashley, Susan L. T.
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ;Routledge, : 2020.,
Description:	1 online resource (136 p.) :ill. :
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record.
Subject:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology -
Online resource:	https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351262484
ISBN:	9781351262484

A museum in public = revisioning Canada's Royal Ontario Museum /
Ashley, Susan L. T.

A museum in publicrevisioning Canada's Royal Ontario Museum /[electronic resource] :Susan L.T. Ashley. - Abingdon, Oxon ;Routledge,2020. - 1 online resource (136 p.) :ill. - Museums in focus.

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Part I: Setting the context; Chapter 1: Boundary zone; Boundary zone not contact zone; Framing this study of museums and publicness; Critical studies of museums in Canada; Methodology; In this book; Chapter 2: Publicness, public institutions, and the public interest; Public sphere; The public and publics; The common good; Government as public; Public/private; Openness; New museology and publicness; In public; Chapter 3: 'Renaissance' and the ROM in public; The Renaissance; William's vision

Not satisfied with the assertion that museums have taken great strides in becoming representative, relevant and open in their preoccupations, A Museum in Public contends that the supposedly public nature of their institutional role continues to be a rhetorical one. This book critically examines museums as institutions of the public sphere, questioning what assumptions are made about the publicness of their operations. Using as a case study the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Canada's largest museum, the book interrogates the public nature and political dynamics of the ROM as it completed a multi-million dollar architectural project and adopted a new vision of the museum. Providing an engaged cultural analysis of how publicness is reflected in the attitudes and behaviours of management, staff and visitors, Ashley claims that museums often function as a boundary zone between the needs and concerns of the public and ideas of publicness that serve corporate and managerial interests and practices. Asking the reader to seriously consider whether the ideals of contact zone and engagement are practically possible within an administrative setting, the book offers insights into how museums might achieve political publicness through transparent, open and democratic communicative action. A Museum in Public raises questions at the intersection of disciplines and, as a result, will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduates in a number of fields, including: museum studies, heritage studies, cultural studies, cultural policy, public policy, political science, sociology, geography, architecture, art history, public history, tourism studies, and cultural management.

ISBN: 9781351262484Subjects--Corporate Names:

1459689
Royal Ontario Museum.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: AM101.R76 / A84 2020eb

Dewey Class. No.: 069.09713/541

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505 8 $a Part II: The ROM in publicChapter 4: Positioning; The ROM and its stakeholders; Processes of relating; A new public positioning?; Chapter 5: Structuring; Status structuring; The question of money; Structuring organizational hierarchies; Structuring public space; Chapter 6: Exhibitioning; Exhibitioning and RenROM; Designing the galleries; Objects not narrative; Exhibitioning hierarchy; The blockbusters -- the Dead Sea Scrolls project; Visitors' engagements; Exhibitioning is political; Chapter 7: Interacting; Real things and real people; Programming and access
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