Museum politics power plays at the exhibition /
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
c2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays
- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s
- 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.