Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture

This is a multidisciplinary study that adopts an innovative and originalapproach to a highly topical question that of meaningmaking in museumsfocusing its atten... » 

This is a multidisciplinary study that adopts an innovative and originalapproach to a highly topical question that of meaningmaking in museumsfocusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture.This work explores such questions asHow and why is it that museums select and arrange artefacts shapeknowledge construct a view?How do museums produce values? How do active audiences make meaning from what they experience inmuseums?This stimulating book provokes debate and discussion on these topics andputs forward the idea of a new museum the postmuseum which will challengethe familiar modernist museum. A must for students and professionals in thefield. «