Main entry:

Weil, Stephen E.

Title & Author:

Rethinking the museum and other meditations / Stephen E. Weil.

Publication:

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1990.

Description:

xviii, 173 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Rethinking the museum: Enough museums? ; Fighting off some dry rot, woodworm, and damp ; A meditation on small and large museums ; The proper business of the museum : ideas or things? ; Rethinking the museum : an emerging new paradigm -- Museum management : workers, collections, and other concerns: The well-managed museum / Earl F. Cheit, co-author ; In pursuit of a profession : the status of museum work in America ; Coleman's vision of the museum worker : is it still valid today? ; The more effective director : specialist or generalist? ; Deaccession practices in American museums ; Deaccesioning modern and contemporary art : some notes on the American experience ; Too much art? ; The Museum Management Institute : its genesis and early years ; Review : the arts and public policy in the United States -- Repose and other brief legal notes: Repose (Afterword: Guggenheim extract from 1989 litigation update) ; Who owns the Nataraja? ; Legal aspects of the display of imitations ; A meditation on work ; Art, law, and utopia.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP1.60 0.

ISBN:

0874749484 (alk. paper)
9780874749489 (alk. paper)
0874749530 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780874749533 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Museums Administration.
Museum techniques Evaluation.
Museums Management.
Musées Gestion.
Muséologie Évaluation.
museum administration.
02.30 museology.
Museumskunde
Museumsorganisation
Museumsverwaltung
Musea.
Museums

Form/genre:

Government publications
Aufsatzsammlung.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 120342
Call No.: ID AM7.W4; ID:95-B2047
Status: Available