Author: Colin Divall
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0718501063
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book is the first in 30 years to take transport museums seriously as vehicles for the making of public histories. Drawing upon many years' experience of visiting and working in transport museums around the world, the authors argue that the sector's historical roots are more complex than is usually thought. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective but firmly rooted in the practice of making public histories, this book brings the study of transport museums firmly into the mainstream of academic and professional debate.>
Making Histories in Transport Museums
Author: Colin Divall
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0718501063
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book is the first in 30 years to take transport museums seriously as vehicles for the making of public histories. Drawing upon many years' experience of visiting and working in transport museums around the world, the authors argue that the sector's historical roots are more complex than is usually thought. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective but firmly rooted in the practice of making public histories, this book brings the study of transport museums firmly into the mainstream of academic and professional debate.>
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0718501063
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book is the first in 30 years to take transport museums seriously as vehicles for the making of public histories. Drawing upon many years' experience of visiting and working in transport museums around the world, the authors argue that the sector's historical roots are more complex than is usually thought. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective but firmly rooted in the practice of making public histories, this book brings the study of transport museums firmly into the mainstream of academic and professional debate.>
Making Histories in Museums
Author: Gaynor Kavanagh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826430724
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This exciting new series recognizes the tremendous potential of museum-based histories and the ways in which they can engage people with ideas about the past. People encounter and use museums on many different levels - personal, social and intellectual - and access meanings that best fit their agendas. Histories in museums can stimulate the imagination, provoke discussion and increase our ability to question what we know. From this it can be deduced that history in museums is as much about the present as it is about the past; as much about how we feel as about what we know; as much about who we are as about who we have been. The first volume in the series, Making Histories in Museums, examines museological features, but deals particularly with hte historiographical issues that have presiously been underplayed. Each contributor looks at theoretical frameworks within a specific field of study, using case studies and comparisons of practice. Good practice is highlighted and potential ways forward explored. The book establishes the themes that will be the subject of more detailed study in later volumes. This series will prove an invaluable resource for all those concerned with or interested in museums - museum professionals, museum students, historians and students of history, as well as the general reader.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826430724
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This exciting new series recognizes the tremendous potential of museum-based histories and the ways in which they can engage people with ideas about the past. People encounter and use museums on many different levels - personal, social and intellectual - and access meanings that best fit their agendas. Histories in museums can stimulate the imagination, provoke discussion and increase our ability to question what we know. From this it can be deduced that history in museums is as much about the present as it is about the past; as much about how we feel as about what we know; as much about who we are as about who we have been. The first volume in the series, Making Histories in Museums, examines museological features, but deals particularly with hte historiographical issues that have presiously been underplayed. Each contributor looks at theoretical frameworks within a specific field of study, using case studies and comparisons of practice. Good practice is highlighted and potential ways forward explored. The book establishes the themes that will be the subject of more detailed study in later volumes. This series will prove an invaluable resource for all those concerned with or interested in museums - museum professionals, museum students, historians and students of history, as well as the general reader.
Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
Author: Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Includes the Society's proceedings and list of members.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Includes the Society's proceedings and list of members.
Tackling Transportation
Author: Helmuth Trischler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In this volume, museum curators and other historians examine transportation artifacts and systems in selected museum collections in Western Europe and the United States. Tackling Transportation demonstrates the manifold ways in which automobiles, aircraft, and railways can be employed in the study of transportation history. In addition, there is a section devoted to the exhibitions at which transportation artifacts are displayed and the museums in which many of them are preserved.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In this volume, museum curators and other historians examine transportation artifacts and systems in selected museum collections in Western Europe and the United States. Tackling Transportation demonstrates the manifold ways in which automobiles, aircraft, and railways can be employed in the study of transportation history. In addition, there is a section devoted to the exhibitions at which transportation artifacts are displayed and the museums in which many of them are preserved.
Making City Histories in Museums
Author: Gaynor Kavanagh
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Museums are city phenomenon, one element within a suite of cultural institutions which most major urban centres support. However, museums now have a very different agenda from the time of their establishment in the nineteenth century. While the majority of cities have museums dedicated to exploring the city itself, the approach and range of interests vary enormously. What these museums have in common is a commitment to construct or propose an appropriate image of the city which can be engaged with by a broad spectrum of people. The contributors consider the making of city histories from very different perspectives and within a number of theoretical frameworks. They use case studies and comparisons of practice. In particular, good practice is highlighted and potential ways forward explored.
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Museums are city phenomenon, one element within a suite of cultural institutions which most major urban centres support. However, museums now have a very different agenda from the time of their establishment in the nineteenth century. While the majority of cities have museums dedicated to exploring the city itself, the approach and range of interests vary enormously. What these museums have in common is a commitment to construct or propose an appropriate image of the city which can be engaged with by a broad spectrum of people. The contributors consider the making of city histories from very different perspectives and within a number of theoretical frameworks. They use case studies and comparisons of practice. In particular, good practice is highlighted and potential ways forward explored.
Watermusic in the Track
Author: Mike Phipps
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966826005
Category : Cable cars (Streetcars)
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966826005
Category : Cable cars (Streetcars)
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
America, History and Life
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
The Witness as Object
Author: Steffi de Jong
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785336436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum objectâ€_x009d_ in the form of video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video testimonies now not only are part of the collections and research activities of museums, but become deeply intertwined with narrative and exhibit design. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time this new global process of “musealisationâ€_x009d_ of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785336436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum objectâ€_x009d_ in the form of video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video testimonies now not only are part of the collections and research activities of museums, but become deeply intertwined with narrative and exhibit design. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time this new global process of “musealisationâ€_x009d_ of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.
Transport and Its Place in History
Author: David Turner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351186612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Transport and mobility history is one of the most exciting areas of historical research at the present. As its scope expands, it entices scholars working in fields as diverse as historical geography, management studies, sociology, industrial archaeology, cultural and literary studies, ethnography, and anthropology, as well as those working in various strands of historical research. Containing contributions exploring transport and mobility history after 1800, this volume of eclectic chapters shows how new subjects are explored, new sources are being encountered, considered and used, and how increasingly diverse and innovative methodological lenses are applied to both new and well-travelled subjects. From canals to Concorde, from freight to passengers, from screen to literature, the contents of this book will therefore not only demonstrate the cutting edge of research, and deliver valuable new insights into the role and position of transport and mobility in history, but it will also evidence the many and varied directions and possibilities that exist for the field’s future development.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351186612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Transport and mobility history is one of the most exciting areas of historical research at the present. As its scope expands, it entices scholars working in fields as diverse as historical geography, management studies, sociology, industrial archaeology, cultural and literary studies, ethnography, and anthropology, as well as those working in various strands of historical research. Containing contributions exploring transport and mobility history after 1800, this volume of eclectic chapters shows how new subjects are explored, new sources are being encountered, considered and used, and how increasingly diverse and innovative methodological lenses are applied to both new and well-travelled subjects. From canals to Concorde, from freight to passengers, from screen to literature, the contents of this book will therefore not only demonstrate the cutting edge of research, and deliver valuable new insights into the role and position of transport and mobility in history, but it will also evidence the many and varied directions and possibilities that exist for the field’s future development.
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1926
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1926
Book Description