A museum in public : revisioning Canada's Royal Ontario Museum
| dc.creator | Susan L.T. Ashley. | |
| dc.date | 2022-02-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-12T17:17:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-12T17:17:58Z | |
| dc.description | [cover](https://repository.museumsiam.org/bitstreams/fe6f11f1-b5f1-48c3-b18b-3da1d85e81d7/download) | |
| dc.description | A Museum in Public critically examines the idea of museums as institutions of the public sphere. 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 Renaissance' architectural project. Employing an empirically engaged cultural analysis of how publicness was reflected in the ideas, attitudes and behaviours of management, staff, and vis- itors, the book builds upon an ethnographic description of four public inter- faces of institutional operations: structuring, positioning, exhibiting, and interacting. Conceptualizing ROM's new nature as 'celebrity publicness': engagement as publicity and not politics, Ashley offers insights into how – and whether - museums like the ROM might achieve political publicness through transparent, open communicative action. As a whole, the book asks museum practitioners and scholars to seriously consider how the ideals of contact zone and engagement with their real need for dissent, conflict, and alternative ways of thinking – can truly be made possible within an administrative setting. A Museum in Public will be a unique resource for scholars and students around the world who are engaged with the ongoing process of democrat- ization in museums. Its on-the-ground reporting on practical organizational ISsues, offered in a shorter more accessible format, will attract and provoke museum practitioners. | |
| dc.description | Part I : Setting the context : page 1 / Boundary zone : page 3 / Publicness, public institutions, and the public interest : page 13 / 'Renaissance' and the ROM in public : page 25 / Part II : The ROM in public : page 31 / Positioning : page 33 / Structuring : page 44 / Exhibitioning : page 55 / Interacting : page 78 / Part III Revisioning : page 99 / Revisioning publicness at the ROM : page 101 / Reference : page 117 / Index : page 131 | |
| dc.format | 145 | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.format | image/jpeg | |
| dc.identifier | 978-0-367-78780-6 | |
| dc.identifier | https://repository.museumsiam.org/handle/6622252777/672 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://onesearch.museumsiam.org/handle/search/23683 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Routledge | |
| dc.rights | สงวนสิทธิ์ในการเข้าถึงภายในพื้นที่ของสถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติเท่านั้น | |
| dc.rights | ผลงานนี้เผยแพร่ภายใต้ลิขสิทธิ์ของของสถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติ | |
| dc.subject | public institutions | |
| dc.subject | Publicness | |
| dc.subject | Revisioning publicness | |
| dc.subject | Revisioning | |
| dc.subject | Museums -- Social aspects | |
| dc.title | A museum in public : revisioning Canada's Royal Ontario Museum | |
| punsarn.source | Digital Repository | |
| punsarn.source.uri | https://repository.museumsiam.org/handle/6622252777/672 |