[D]eeply engaging and accessible, providing unique and varied snapshots into the lives and histories of museums and of those associated with them, while at the same time asking deep questions of agency, knowledge, affect, narrative, object, and self.
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For the academic historian new to the debate on what makes history in museums, the variety of content, particularly ... Read morein the latter half of this edited volume gives some sense of the complexity of the subject. There is much of interest that can also be garnered from the first part, not least in considering how museums and their collections came into being.
REVIEWS IN HISTORY
Informed, informative, and a highly recommended addition to academic library reference collections.
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