Museums of the world
Subtitle: towards a new understanding of a historical institution
By: editors: Kurt Almqvist & Louise Belfrage
Contributors: Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
Publisher: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Stockholm, Sweden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9789189672802
Subjects: Museums; Congresses
Notes: Includes 7 of 10 papers presented at the like named symposium held at the Moderna Museet, Skeppsholmen, Engelsberg Manor, Västmanland on March 3rd and 4th 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Kurt Almqvist; title: Museums in transition : a closer look at the German-speaking countries / Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen; title: Collections, audience, and enlightenment / Bruce Altshuler; title: A short history of the thing on display, 1960-2000 / Mario Schulze; title: Private elysium into public spectacle : how successfully do private collections become public museums? / Tim Knox; title: Future perfect tense : on museum's temporality / Patricia Falguières; title: The body redux : a curator's post-script on exhibition India / Naman P. Ahuja; title: Museums of the world : some concluding remarks / Jasper Sharp.