Title & Author:

Past meets present : essays about historic interpretation and public audiences / Jo Blatti, editor ; photographs by Patricia Layman Bazelon.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1987.

Description:

x, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"A Project of the New York Council for the Humanities."
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Past Meets Present: Field Notes on Historical Sites, Programs, Professionalism, and Visitors / Jo Blatti -- Section I, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Interpretive Programs: Taking Down the Velvet Rope: Cultural Geography and the Human Landscape / Peirce Lewis -- Public History and the Historic Preservation District / Elizabeth Collins Cromley -- The Politics of Public History / Michael Wallace -- What Might Have Been and What Has Been-Fictional Public Art about the Real Past / Jane Greengold -- History Museums and the Culture of Materialism / Michael J. Ettema -- Photographs / Patricia Layman Barzelon -- Section II, Design and Technique in the Realization of Interpretive Programs: Exhibition as (Art) Form / Barbara Fahs Charles -- So the Seams Don't Show / Irene U. Burnham -- Intentions and Accomplishments: Principles of Museum Evaluation Research / Marey Ellen Munley -- Section III, Finding the Metaphors: A Broader Vision: Exhibits That Change the Way Visitors Look at the Past / Warren Leon -- Audience Expectations as Resource and Challenge: Ellis Island as Case Study / Michael H. Frisch and Dwight Pitcaithley.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0874742722 (alk. paper)
9780874742725 (alk. paper)
0874742331 (pbk.)
9780874742336 (pbk.)

Subject:

Public history.
Historical museums United States.
Museum techniques.
Historical museums Public relations.
Historic sites United States.
Audiences.
Outreach programs in history United States.
Histoire appliquée.
Histoire Musées États-Unis.
Muséologie.
Histoire Musées Relations publiques.
Lieux historiques États-Unis.
Publics.
Histoire Étude et enseignement Programmes d'animation extérieure États-Unis.
museology.
audiences.
Historic sites
Historical museums
Outreach programs in history
Public relations Historical museums.
United States
Historiology

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Blatti, Jo.
New York Council for the Humanities.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 6136
Call No.: ID:87-B20596
Status: Available