Overview

Towards the Museum of the Future reviews the major current concerns in European museums through a series of specially-commissioned, authoritative essays. Written against a background of unprecedented change in museums and society, the essays explore how museums are variously attempting to maintain their role in a culturally and politically unstable world. The essays present a wide range of sometimes contradictory views on museums, exhibitions and museum education. They embrace case studies, general reviews and theoretical analyses, and are written from a variety of museums and the people who visit them; museums and the media; museums and exhibition design; the educational significance of museums in formal and informal settings. This is the first book to approach current problems from such a wide perspective. Its authors, from seven countries, provide comprehensive coverage ranging not just geographically across Europe, but over most type of exhibitions and audiences in science, history and art museums.

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`This volume is an informative, stimulating and timely book...there is much in it for informed museum visitor to enjoy and muse over...We should all take heart from the energy, conviction and commitment expressed by these various authors: with their passionate belief in the continuing and renewed value of museums we can be confident that if our paymasters are also convinced, that museums will be flourishing and growing well into the 21st century.' - Museum News

Author Information

Roger Miles is Head of the Department of Public Services at the Natural History Museum in London, where he has been responsible for a long series of major exhibitions for the general public., Lauro Zavala is Professor in the Department of Education and Communication at the Metropolitan Autonomous University at Xochimilco in Mexico City.

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