Kevin Coffee

The End of the Museum

Culture, Colonialism and Liberation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781032792781
• ISBN-10: 1032792787
• Artikelnr.: 73985103

Autorenporträt

Kevin Coffee is a public museologist who has worked with cultural organizations for more than 40 years, including the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, and the US National Park Service. During that time, he has led and advised scores of organizations and projects in North America, Europe, and Asia. His work engages culture creators and museum users in developing new forms of inclusive and dialogical exhibitions, programs, landscapes, and museums. He resides in the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An Existential Challenge
Chapter 1: Orientations of Culture
Chapter 2: Consciousness as Culture
Chapter 3: Museums as Culture
Chapter 4: World Heritage as Interdependent System
Chapter 5: Disrupting Museum Practice
Chapter 6: Toward a Liberatory Museology
Afterword: Zones of Proximal Rebellion
Index.