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Overview
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2002]
©2002 - Contents
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Introduction : museum exhibitions as power plays
Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars
Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum
Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia
Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art
Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History
The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life
Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum
Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation
Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum
Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-258) and index.
Introduction : museum exhibitions as power plays -- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars -- Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum -- Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia -- Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art -- Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History -- The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life -- Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum -- Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum -- Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation -- Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum -- Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum.
Physical Details
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- English
- External Link
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Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest
- ISBN
- 0816619883
0816619891 - Additional Form
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Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 265 pages ; 23 cm
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