Title: University Museums of Great Britain: Representational Function
Abstract:The purpose of this article is detection of different possibilities for the representation of a university corporation in the UK realized through various museum practices. This research focuses on two...The purpose of this article is detection of different possibilities for the representation of a university corporation in the UK realized through various museum practices. This research focuses on two groups of university museums selected on the principle whether they form some kind of a narrative or they can be examined as a anarrative. The presence or absence of the physical space of the museum was also taken into account.Various approaches were used during the research: analysis of representations and visual studies of museums; museum audience research, analysis of the interaction between museum spaces and urban community. As a result, the cases presented in the article bring us closer to understanding of how a museum changes, and what public and museum workers themselves invest in this concept, and how museum practices are used by British universities for accumulating their historyRead More
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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