What Are Museums For?

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Jon Sleigh (Learning Officer for the Arts Council Collection based at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery)

What Are Museums For?

Jon Sleigh (Learning Officer for the Arts Council Collection based at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery)

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BRISTOL UNIVERSITY PRESS
01 June 2024

Museums & museology; Society & Social Sciences; Social discrimination

Series: What Is It For?

The days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are over. Museums today are a cultural battleground. Who should decide what is put on display and how it is presented? Who gets to set the narrative?

In this passionately argued book, Jon Sleigh maintains that museums must be for all people and inclusion must be at the heart of everything they do. But what does good inclusion look like in practice? Cleverly structured like a museum tour, Sleigh uses seven illustrative museum objects from seven very different museums to explore such wide-ranging issues as trust-building, representation, digital access, conflicting narratives, removal from display and restitution.

By: Jon Sleigh (Learning Officer for the Arts Council Collection based at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery)
Imprint: BRISTOL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781529231397
ISBN 10: 1529231396
Series: What Is It For?
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 01 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: The Emotional Museum Encounter 2. The Classical Museum 3. The Museum in Service of Others 4. The Digital Museum 5. The Museum and Trust 6. The Queer Museum 7. The Changing Museum 8. The Future Museum?

Jon Sleigh is a freelance arts and heritage Learning Curator, working nationally connecting audiences with artworks and collections for their advocacy. He was formerly Learning Officer for the Arts Council Collection based at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.