Museum Dialogue in India - Hardcover

Museum Dialogue in India

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. Introduction/Rama Lakshmi. Museum and the Community. 1. Bhopal gas tragedy: dissonant history, difficult heritage/Moulshri Joshi and Amritha Ballal. 2. A museum that gives voice to a tragedy: remember Bhopal Museum/Rama Lakshmi. 3. Engaging with public history/Indira Chowdhury. 4. Confronting the past: thoughts on a partition Museum/Urvashi Butalia. 5. The world's first partition museum at town hall, Amritsar/Kishwar Desai. 6. Mapping social identities/Minja Yang. Intangible Cultural Heritage. 7. Dastangoi: revival of the Mughal art of storytelling/Mahmood Farooqui. 8. Beyond the object: changing museum discourse/Marie Eve Celio-Scheurer and Moe Chiba. 9. Living museums: understanding our urban spaces/Himanshu Verma. 10. Amaravathi heritage town: as an open air museum/Amareswar Galla. Museums and Visitors. 11. Why should museums matter in India? Joyoti Roy. 12. Recasting the visitors: from passive consumers to active agents/Andrew J Pekarik. 13. Museum theatre: living connections to exhibits/Elizabeth Pickard. 14. Access to history: making design universal/Abha Negi. 15. Museum in the mall: visitors as art consumers/Deepti Mulgund. Curatorial Voices: Changes and Challenges. 16. Projecting India: Museum displays in the United States/Vidya Dehejia. 17. Identity and Indian Museums/Batul Raaj Mehta. 18. An unclaimed legacy: examining and exhibiting photographic archives in India/Pramod Kumar KG. 19. Indian manuscripts: displaying intellectual history/Sudha Gopalakrishnan. 20. Delhi Metro Museum: The chronicler of a new age revolution/Anuj Dayal. 21. Archiving corporate memory/Vrunda Pathare. 22. The art of museum making/Alka Pande. Museum Planning and Maintenance. 23. Museum planning in India/Barry Lord. 24. Demystifying documentation/Mrinalini Venkateswaran. 25. Retailing cultural merchandise/Maureen Liebl. 26. Heritage orphanages: site museums/Amita Baig. 27. Managing Museums/Sadashiv Gorakshkar. 28. Teaching Museology in India/Manvi Seth. 29. Emerging trends in the museums/Apurva Sinha and Shikha Jain. This book is the first-ever compilation of essays by cultural practitioners about the changing and unchanging dynamics of India's museum landscape. The essays highlight Indian cultural institutions' ambitious beginnings, missed opportunities along the way and the canvas for future imaginings. At a time when museums in India are undergoing a sea change, this publication provides an invaluable insight into museum design, curatorial narratives, documentation and cataloguing and visitors' experience that will soon redefine museum perspectives in India. The book is a welcome resource for all museum planners, curators, conservators and researchers in the field. Artikel-Nr. 122242

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