Plantation to nation
Subtitle: Caribbean museums and national identity
By: edited by Alissandra Cummins, Kevin Farmer, and Roslyn Russell
Series: Inclusive museum series
Publisher: Common Ground Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781612290737; 9781612290744
Subjects: Museums; Museum techniques; Caribbean National characteristics; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Natural history = national history : early origins and organizing principles of museums in the English-speaking Caribbean / Alissandra Cummins; title: Haiti, museums and public collections : their history and development after 1804 / Marie-Lucie Vendryes; title: The history and evolution of Cuban museums / Jose Linares; title: The natural history collections of the University of the West Indies (UWI) / Mike Rutherford; title: The national gallery of Jamaica : a critical history / Veerle Poupeye; title: Bermuda Maritime Museum : development of a national institution, 1974-2009 / Edward Cecil Harris; title: Recapturing history : Suriname Museum in Fort Zeelandia / Hilde Neus; title: Museography and places of remembrance of slavery in Martinique or the gaps in a memory difficult to express / Christine Chivallon; title: New perspectives in heritage presentations in Suriname and Curaçao : from Dutch colonial museums to diversifying representations of enslavement / Valika Smeulders; title: New museums on the block : creation of identity in the post-independence Caribbean / Kevin Farmer; title: Framing identity, encouraging diversity : recent museum developments in Barbados / Roslyn Russell; title: The Memorial Museum of the Dominican Resistance : its composition and role in society / Luisa de Pena Diaz; title: "Children get your culture" : museums, individualism and nationalism in Jamaica / Rebecca Tortello; title: Outreach or out of reach? : seeking new audiences : the Turks and Caicos National Museum Children's Club / Nigel Sadler; title: Museums and the challenge for heritage organizations in Saint Lucia / Winston F. Phulgence; title: Destroying while preserving Junkanoo : the Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas / Krista Thompson.