Rethinking the Museum and Other Meditations

Name/Title

Rethinking the Museum and Other Meditations

Entry/Object ID

2013.027.1

Description

Essays on various aspects of museum management and operations. RETHINKING THE MUSEUM: Enough museums? -- Fighting off some dry rot, woodworm, and damp -- A meditation on small and large museums -- The proper business of the museum: ideas or things? -- The well-managed museum MUSEUM MANAGEMENT: WORKERS, COLLECTIONS, AND OTHER CONCERNS: The well-managed museum -- In pursuit of a profession: the status of museum work in America -- Coleman's vision of the museum worker: is it still valid today? -- The more effective director: specialist or generalist -- Deaccession practices in American museums -- Deaccessioning modern and contemporary art: some notes on the American experience -- Too much art? -- The Museum Management Institute: its genesis and early years -- Review: the arts and public policy in the United States REPOSE AND OTHER BRIEF LEGAL NOTES: Repose -- Who owns the Nataraja -- Legal aspects of the display of imitations -- A meditation on work -- Art, law, and utopia xviii, 173 p. ; 24cm. (softcover)

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2013.027.

Source or Donor

Fanio King

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Fanio King

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Museums--Management, Museum techniques--Evaluation

Book Details

Author

Weil, Stephen E.

Publisher

Smithsonian Institution Press

Place Published

Location

Washington, DC

Date Published

circa 1990

Call No.

AM7 .W393 1990

ISBN

0874749530

Location

Location

Shelf

Hall Bookshelf

Building

NRH Research Room

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: By Stephen E. Weil. Includes bibliographical references.

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Create Date

November 5, 2013

Updated By

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Update Date

February 16, 2023