Museum Politics(English, Paperback, Luke Timothy W.)

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Museum Politics(English, Paperback, Luke Timothy W.) is written by Luke Timothy W. and published by University of Minnesota Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0816619891 (ISBN 10) and 9780816619894 (ISBN 13).

The first sustained critique of the ways museum exhibits shape cultural assumptions and political values Each year the more than seven thousand museums in the United States attract more attendees than either movies or sports. Yet until recently, museums have escaped serious political analysis. The past decade, however, has witnessed a series of unusually acrimonious debates about the social, political, and moral implications of museum exhibitions as varied as the Enola Gay display at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum and the Sensation exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In this important volume, Timothy W. Luke explores museums's power to shape collective values and social understandings, and argues persuasively that museum exhibitions have a profound effect on the body politic. Through discussions of topics ranging from how the National Holocaust Museum and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles have interpreted the Holocaust to the ways in which the American Museum of Natural History, the Missouri Botanical Gardens, and Tucson's Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum have depicted the natural world, Luke exposes the processes through which museums challenge but more often affirm key cultural and social realities.