What Is a Museum?

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Perspectives from National and International Museum Leaders

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1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Preface No access
1. 1 Framing the Question No access
2. 2 Public Trust at American Museums Today No access
3. 3 How Do We Center People in Museums? No access
4. 4 Museums Must Be More No access
1. 5 The Purpose of Place No access
2. 6 Museums and Place No access
3. 7 Yes, and No access
4. 8 Crossing Museum Boundaries No access
1. 9 Why Do Museums Collect? No access
2. 10 KonMari in the Museum No access
3. 11 On Museums and Collecting No access
4. 12 Beyond Colonial Collecting No access
1. 13 Assymetries of Power No access
2. 14 What Makes a Museum a Museum No access
3. 15 The Work Is Never Done No access
4. 16 “Dysmantaling” a Museum No access
1. 17 The Museum with the Community No access
2. 18 To Be of Influence Starts with Being Open to Influence No access
3. 19 Can a New Definition Convert Museums into Influencers? No access
4. 20 Redefine the Museum No access
1. 21 Beyond Crisis No access
2. 22 Imagining Another World at the National Public Housing Museum No access
3. 23 ICOM and Sustainable Futures No access
4. 24 The Museum’s Role in the Global Effort to Create a World Where Everyone and Everything Can Thrive No access
1. 25 Seizing the Moment No access
The United States National Committee oft he International Council of Museums No access Pages 171 - 174
Index No access Pages 175 - 192
About the Contributors No access Pages 193 - 204
About the Editors No access Pages 205 - 207