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The library has a reasonable collection of books on
museums and heritage, all of which would be worth a browse. Here is a
selection:
- Hooper-Greenhill, E., 1994, Museums and their Visitors, Routledge.
- Hooper-Greenhill, E., 1994, Museum and Gallery Education, Leicester
University Press.
- Hooper-Greenhill, E., 1999, Museum, Media, Message, Routledge.
- Macdonald, S. and Fyfe, G., 1996, Theorising
Museums, Blackwell. This collection of papers looks at a range of problems
which surround the seemingly simple idea of representing the past.
- Sherman, D. and Rogoff, I., 1994, Museum Culture.
Routledge. A very difficult read; but if you wish to free, radically,
your thoughts on representing the past, then this is the book for you.
- Lowenthal, D., 1985, The Past is a Foreign
Country, Cambridge UP. An encyclopedic look at the 'heritage mania'
which swept Britain and the US in the 1980's, and an attempt to understand
its cultural roots. You can use this book to provide an interesting
repertoire of 'routes back to the past', since he deals in great detail
with how and why we try and recover aspects of the past.
- Lowenthal, D., 1997, The Heritage Crusade
and the Spoils of History, Cambridge UP. An alternative 'take' on the
above. This book is very critical of 'heritage dross', and would be
a useful read if you are trying to produce an alternative 'take' on
an established heritage attraction.
- Taylor, J., 1994, A Dream of England, Manchester
UP. This book meditates on heritage and the construction of the past
from a visual perspective - the author lectures on photography. He looks
at the ways in which our repertoire of photographic evocations of England's
past has been built up. He also considers ways of subverting and inverting
establised images.
- Wells, L., 1997, Photography: A Critical Introduction,
Routledge. This book can be used as a complement to Taylor's; it is
a more tutorial look at the way in which styles of representation become
established. See especially the chapter on commodity culture.
There are a vast number of multimedia heritage sites
on the web, and the following are just a sample - may be not even a representative
one - of the sites from which you may wish to learn:
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