Making Museums Matter : Museum Studies - Stephen Weil

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Making Museums Matter

By: Stephen Weil

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Paperback | 17 February 2002

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Stephen E. Weil has long been considered one of the museum community's most insightful (and frequently wittiest) commentators. In this volume of twenty-nine recent essays, his overarching concern is that museums be able to "earn their keep" -- that they make themselves matter -- in an environment of potentially shrinking resources.Museums matter, according to Weil, when their staff's traditional object-related skills are directed towards enriching both the individual lives and the general well-being of the communities they serve. What makes museums so special, he says, is the varied ways in which they may choose to perform that service. Museums have the potential to kindle individual ambition, to strengthen community ties, to stimulate inquiry, to impart knowledge, to provide aesthetic experiences, and ever so much more.Also included in this collection are reflections on the special qualities of art museums, an investigation into the relationship of current copyright law to the visual arts,a detailed,consideration of how the museums and legal system of the United States have coped with the problem of Nazi-era art, and a series of delightfully provocative training exercises for those anticipating entry into the museum field. The publication of these essays in one volume ensures that even those previously published in highly specialized journals will get the wide exposure they surely deserve.

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"An outstanding selection of informed and informative essays about the difference that museums make, their role in preserving and showcasing history and art to the public, cost-related problems plaguing museums today, and a great deal more. Enthusiastically recommended as a most thoughtful and authoritative treatise on these notable and noble institutions."-Midwest Book Review

"Mr. Weil's work will assist us all to understand that even our most enlightened assumptions require daily visits if they are to be fresh. And, it seems clear to me after experiencing this collection, such visits must not be paid alone, but in groups of colleagues from across every museum stratum."-Curator: The Museum Journal

"...Must-read for museum professionals, supporters, and funding sources, and [it] will certainly be relevant to anyone interested in the future of museums."-Science

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Museology & Heritage Studies Politics & Government Central Government Central Government Policies

Foreword	p. ix
The Museum in Pursuit of Excellence
Organization-wide Quality: A Theory of Museums and Immodest Proposal	p. 3
(F)FeTMu	p. 24
From Being about Something to Being for Somebody: The Ongoing Transformation of the American Museum	p. 28
Fantasy Islands	p. 53
Museums: Can and Do They Make a Difference?	p. 55
New Words, Familiar Music: The Museum as Social Enterprise	p. 75
Transformed from a Cemetery of Bric-a-brac	p. 81
The Museum As Workplace
The Distinctive Numerator	p. 93
A Parable of Rocks and Reasons	p. 99
Romance versus Realism: A Reflection on the Nature of Museums	p. 102
Museum Publishing: Some Revolutions in Progress	p. 109
If Content Is Out, Aesthetics Must Be In	p. 126
The Museum at the End of Time	p. 136
Collecting Then, Collecting Today: What's the Difference?	p. 141
Twenty-One Ways to Buy Art	p. 151
The Museum As Palace
Courtly Ghosts and Aristocratic Artifacts	p. 159
Reduced to Art	p. 170
John Cotton Dana's New Museum	p. 188
The Museum in the Public Sphere
The Museum and the Public	p. 195
The American Legal Response to the Problem of Holocaust Art	p. 214
Fair Use and the Visual Arts: Please Leave Some Room for Robin Hood	p. 239
Cloning and Copyright	p. 253
Fair Use and Museum Use: How Close Is the Overlap?	p. 263
Not Money, Control	p. 270
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