Making a Museum in the 21st Century
- ISBN-10
- 0692277633
- ISBN-13
- 9780692277638
- Category
- Museum techniques
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- Melissa Chiu
Description
"Making a museum in the 21st Century is an essential overview of pressing issues faced by museums around the world in a new era of audience engagement. This book contains essays from luminaries in the field along with selected transcriptions from the 2013 inaugural Asia Society Arts & Museum Summit. The perspectives of prominent museum leaders, directors, and curators are presented alongside those of top architects and artists as they tackle questions about the form and function of a museum in the 21st century."--Back cover.
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