Museums and the past
Subtitle: constructing historical consciousness
By: edited by Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Vancouver, BC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780774830638; 9780774830645; 9780774830652
Subjects: Museums; Collective memory; Museum techniques; Musées; Mémoire collective; Muséologie; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Museum Administration & Museology; REFERENCE; General; TRAVEL; Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
Description: This vibrant examination of the museum's role as contemporary narrator of our past reveals that our perceptions of history and ourselves are shaped as much by how a museum presents information as by what information it presents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Title Page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Perspectives on Museums and Historical Consciousness in Canada; Part 1: Programming Historical Consciousness; 2 The Royal Ontario Museum, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Critical Public Engagement; 3 The Voices of the Canoe Project: Weaving Together Indigenous and Western Historical Knowledge Traditions; 4 The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum: A Model Institution; 5 Public Pedagogy and the Museum: The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, for Example; Part 2: Measuring Historical Consciousness.; title: 6 Changing Views? Emotional Intelligence, Registers of Engagement, and the Museum Visit7 Using Museum Resources and Mobile Technologies to Develop Teens' Historical Thinking: Formative Evaluation of an Innovative Educational Set-Up; 8 Museums as In-Between Institutions: Can They Be Trusted?; 9 The Concept of Historical Consciousness Applied to Museums: A Case Study of the Exhibition People of Québec ... Then and Now; Part 3: Instrumentalizing Historical Consciousness.; title: 10 Controversy as Catalyst: Administrative Framing, Public Perception, and the Late-Twentieth-Century Exhibitionary Complex in Canada11 The Gift of Historical Consciousness: Museums, Art, and Poverty; 12 Museums and the Responsibility Gap; 13 Out of the Box and into the Fold: Museums, Human Rights, and Changing Pedagogical Practices; 14 Epilogue: The Blossoming of Canadian Museology and Historical Consciousness; List of Contributors; Index; Copyright.