Museums and Communities: the politics of public culture
By (author): "Steven D. Lavine, Christine Mullen Kreamer, Ivan Karp"
ISBN156098189X
ISBN139781560981893
AsinMuseums and Communities: the politics of public culture
Original titleMUSEUMS & COMMUNITIES PB
Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.