Museums in the Second World War
Curators, Culture and Change
Exploring the role of museums, galleries and curators during the upheaval of the Second World War, this book challenges the accepted view of a hiatus in museum services during the conflict and its immediate aftermath. Instead it argues that new thinking in the 1930s was realised in a number of promising initiatives during the war only to fail during the fragmented post-war recovery. Based on new research including interviews with retired museum staff, letters, diaries, museum archives and government records, this study reveals a complex picture of both innovation and inertia. At the outbreak of war precious objects were stored away and staff…
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Weitere Autoren: Keene, Suzanne (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-351-70254-6
- EAN: 9781351702546
- Produktnummer: 25388159
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'917 KB
- Abbildungen: 65 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 54 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 9 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Catherine Pearson, Author, Independent Historian and Scholar, UK. She is the editor of the journals of museum curator, E.J. Rudsdale, 1920-1951.Suzanne Keene, Editor, Reader Emeritus at University College London. She has a number of published books on museum collections, most recently co-authoring Museums and Silent Objects: Designing Effective Exhibitions.
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