Museums and Communities

By - Ivan ,Karp , [etal]

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992.

ISBN 10 - 156098189X

ISBN 13 - 9781560981893

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Museums--Planning--Congresses.

Shelf No - 9

Call Number - 069.5 MUS

Physical Description - x, 614 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes - Includes bibliographical references.

Book Information

Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.

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