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Museum Studies, Museology, Museography, Museum Architecture, Exhibition Design Bibliography: Books 1992-2012 Luca Basso Peressut (ed.) Updated January 2012 2 Sections: p. 3 Introduction p. 4 General Readers, Anthologies, and Dictionaries p. 18 The Idea of Museum: Historical Perspectives p. 38 Museums Today: Debate and Studies on Major Issues p. 97 Making History and Memory in Museums p. 103 Museums: National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives p. 116 Representing Cultures in Museums: From Colonial to Postcolonial p. 124 Museums and Communities p. 131 Museums, Heritage, and Territory p. 144 Museums: Identity, Difference and Social Equality p. 150 ‘Hot’ and Difficult Topics and Histories in Museums p. 162 Collections, Objects, Material Culture p. 179 Museum and Publics: Interpretation, Learning, Education p. 201 Museums in a digital age: ICT, virtuality, new media p. 211 Museography, Exhibitions: Cultural Debate and Design p. 247 Museum Architecture: Theory and Practice p. 266 Contemporary Art, Artists and Museums: Investigations, Theories, Actions p. 279 Museums and Libraries Partnership Updated January 2012 3 Introduction This bibliography is intended as a general overview of the printed books on museums topics published in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian in Europe and the United States over the last twenty years or so. The chosen period (1992-2012) is only apparently arbitrary, since this is the period of major output of studies and research in the rapidly changing contemporary museum field. The 80s of the last century began with the affirmation of the schools of ‘museum studies’ in the Anglophone countries, as well as with the development of the Nouvelle Muséologie in France (consolidated in 1985 with the foundation of the Mouvement International pour la Nouvelle Muséologie-MINOM, as an ICOM affiliate). Of particular importance is the publication in 1989 of the seminal book The New Museology edited by Peter Vergo. Since then we have witnessed not only the birth of a remarkable quantity of museums, but also the development of a broad spectrum of new museum topics, particularly related to contemporaneity, as well as a new attitude towards the Past according to the ‘post-modern’ and ‘post-colonial’ theories. Many of the books listed here are related to the growing interest in the social role of museums, in greater attention to visitor communication, in the changing approach to multi- and trans-culturality that is generated by increasing migrations, circulation and mobility of people, goods, services, information, and knowledge: an increasingly visible melting pot of ethnics and cultures that characterize the contemporary societies, not forgetting the role of advanced technologies in the global networking and interchange of collective and personal relationships. This means that museums today are more and more engaged with the Present and its problems, and in this way they collect, act and speak to visitors. At the same time, new architectural expressions, new contents and forms of exhibitions and displays, an interdisciplinary attitude in organizing the cultural offer, and new missions and partnerships (for example with libraries) are part of a general process of re-thinking the organization of the institution, and are among the challenges that museums must afford at the beginning of the new millennium. The 332 books of the bibliography are organized in seventeen sections in which the complex reality of museums today is analyzed and new opportunities and proposal are put forward: starting from historical issues seen in the perspective of contemporary sight, to the museum as a new medium with the use of the advanced technologies of communication and virtuality applied to exhibitionary settings. At the same time, we see questions related to the ‘property’ of ancient heritage (and the debate about repatriation), to contemporary art, science, history, memories and histories, communities, territory and belonging, nationality and trans- nationality. Nevertheless, identity issues appear to be part of museums’ interests today, like inclusion, exclusion, selfness and otherness, cultural diversity; difficult topics such as migrations, diasporas, wars, holocaust; ‘hot topics’ like those related to disabilities, sexual, and racial violence, terrorism, genetically modified foods, pandemics, and climate change. Finally, material culture and ‘learning from things’, the role of collections and objects in museums’ presentations, experience and interpretation, architecture and exhibition design, partnerships among museums and other cultural institutions such as libraries, involve museum narrativity in better representing culturally pluralist societies. This bibliography, even though widely comprehensive, is necessarily and intentionally selected and represents a significant frame of reference for the whole disciplinary body of museum studies, museology, museography, museum architecture and exhibition design. What is missing are the essays published in books which are not strictly related to museums, magazines and on the web (a different kind of documentation indeed), and a section dedicated to museums’ technicalities and management (this will be added in a further version of the reference). Inside the sections the books are listed by publication date (from old to new) and documented with an image of the cover, a brief description taken from different sources -back covers, publishers’ presentations, introduction texts…- and the table of contents. As a product of the Research Field 6 of MeLa 7th EU Framework Programme, ‘Museums in an age of migrations’, the bibliography represents a background of information shared by all the project’s partners and aims to be a useful point of departure for going further in depth in the different fields of MeLa research. 4 General Readers, Anthologies, and Dictionaries Jessica Evans, David Boswell (eds.), Representing the Nation: A Reader in Heritage and Museums, Routledge, London-New York/NY 1999. “Gathering key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies, Representing the Nation. A reader explores the role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation. With an international perspective focusing on the USA, France, Australia, the UK and India, leading figures and authors, including Tony Bennet, Ralph Samuel and Carol Duncan examine the way the past is preserved, represented and consumed as our ‘heritage’. Written in three sections, the book examines: strategies involved in creating and sustaining a national culture; the growth of heritage culture, from the founding of the National Trust in 1895 to the heritage acts of the 1980s; why it has become important for nations to preserve the past and in whose name is it preserved and displayed; the historical development of the public museum; issues and difficulties facing museums today and the competing demands and interests of public funding bodies, tourists and local communities”. Contents: “Introduction: Nation and Representation”, Jessica Evans Part One. Culture, community and nation “Introduction to Part One”, David Boswell “Tradition and Translation: National Culture in Its Global Context”, Kevin Robins “Culture, Community, Nation”, Stuart Hall “History and Modernity: Reflections on the Theory of Nationalism”, Anthony D. Smith, “Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870-1914”, Eric Hobsbawm “Englishness and the National Culture”, Philip Dodd Part Two. Representing the past as heritage and its consumption “Introduction to Part Two”, David Boswell “Trafficking in History” Patrick Wright “The Climate of Decline”, Robert Hewison “Resurrectionism”, Raphael Samuel “Fatal Attractions”, Chris Rojek “Gazing on History”, John Urry Part Three. Museums as classificatory systems and their prehistories “Introduction to Part Three”, Jessica Evans “National Monuments”, Richard D. Altick “Fear of Circuses: Founding the National Museum of Victoria”, David Goodman “The Chicago World’s Colombian Exposition of 1893: ‘And Was Jerusalem Builded Here?’”, Robert W. Rydell “From the Princely Gallery to the Public Art Museum: The Louvre Museum And the National Gallery, London”, Carol Duncan “The Exhibitionary Complex”, Tony Bennett 5 Part Four. Museums and cultural management “Introduction to Part Four”, Jessica Evans “Attempts to Define ‘Museum’”, Kenneth Hudson “Useful Culture”, Tony Bennett “Cultural Policy: Research and the Government Imperative”, Colin Mercer “Museums Are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India” Arjun Appadurai, Carol A. Breckenridge “Rewriting the Museums’ Fictions: Axonomies, Stories and Readers”, Sharon Macdonald, Roger Silverstone “Museums as Contact Zones”, James Clifford. Alison K. Brown, Laura Peers (eds.), Museums and Source Communities: A Reader, Routledge, London-New York/NY 2003. “This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved in collaborating museums and source communities. Focusing on museums in the UK, North America and the Pacific, the book highlights three areas which demonstrate the new developments most clearly: the museum as field site or ‘contact zone’ ; a place which source community members enter for purposes of consultation and collaboration; visual repatriation; the use of photography to return images of ancestors, historical moments and material heritage to source communities; exhibition case studies. These are discussed