Deans Crisis, Reinvention and Resilience in Museums

Defence and Revolution at the Imperial War Museum, 1933-1950
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-67806-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 282 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book explores museum crises. Through an investigation into the experience of the Imperial War Museum during the Second World War era, 1933-1950, it considers how crises disrupt museums and the contrasting defensive and revolutionary strategies which museums must adopt when mitigating crises. It is situated in a small but emergent literature concerning museums and crisis. Existing works mainly comprise contemporary studies on difficult museum experiences, predominantly financial difficulty, wherein the term crisis has been applied to describe an institution’s general state of malaise. This book, by contrast, presents an innovative and groundbreaking historical case study on a single museum facing wholesale physical and ideological collapse, deploying original crisis concepts to analyse different critical situations and the pathology underlying them.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deans, Philip W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Key Framing Concepts.- Chapter 3 The Imperial War Museum 1917-1939.- Chapter 4: Continuing a Civic Service 1939-1945.- Chapter 5: Safeguarding the Collection 1933-1950.- Chapter 6: Reconceiving the Institution 1939.- Chapter 7: Planning the Reconception 1939-1941.- Chapter 8: Materialising the Reconception 1940-1948.- Chapter 9: Conclusions and Reflections.

Über Autor(innen)

Philip W. Deans is currently an Associate Lecturer at Newcastle University, UK.