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Negotiating histories : national museums : conference proceedings / edited by Darryl McIntyre and Kirsten Wehner.

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ISBN 1876944013
Title Negotiating histories : national museums : conference proceedings / edited by Darryl McIntyre and Kirsten Wehner.
Running title National museums negotiating histories
Publisher and/or associated date/s Canberra, A.C.T. : National Museum of Australia, 2001.
Description xix, 220 p. ; 25 cm.
Note "Published by the National Museum of Australia in association with the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research and the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy".
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part 1 : National museums in a postcolonial world: The National Museum of Australia: exploring the past, illuminating the present and imagining the future / Dawn Casey -- National museums in a global age: observations abroad and reflections at home / Graeme Davison -- Negotiating new histories in a new South Africa / Udo S. Kusel -- Cross-currents of change and the future role of national museums / Steve Prystupa -- Negotiating histories: the German experience / Hans-Martin Hinz -- Diversity of visitors, diversity of interpretation: the Australian War Memorial's Second World War Gallery / Peter Stanley -- Part II : People and nation: Exhibiting Indigenous histories in Australian museums / Gaye Sculthorpe -- Show times: de-celebrating the Canadian nation, decolonising the Canadian Museum, 1967-92 / Ruth B. Phillips -- Negotiating histories: a perspective from two hemispheres / George F. MacDonald -- Taonga, marae, whenua - negotiating custodianship: a Maori tribal response to the Museum of New Zealand / Paul Tapsell, Te Arawa -- Challenging or conventional?: Migration history in Australian museums / Ian McShane -- Dilemmas and paradoxes of a local history museum in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Rooksana Omar -- The politics of Pakeha history in a bicultural museum: Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, 1993-98 / Jock Phillips -- National museums and historical truth / David Lowenthal -- Part III : The Global and the local: the place of environmental history in national museums: People and landscape: the environment and national identities in museums / John M. MacKenzie -- Natural history museums in the environmental age / Geoff Hicks -- Still settling and muddling through : policy, history and the Australian environment / Stephen Dovers -- Captions for landscapes / Jay Arthur.
Summary The National Museums: Negotiating Histories conference considered how competing understandings of national histories are presented and negotiated through exhibitions and other public programs in museums. Speakers and participants explored how museums present Indigenous and settler/migrant histories and cultures, and environmental histories in postcolonial societies, especially South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. These conference proceedings encapsulate the latest thinking on how national museums can accommodate different perspectives and understandings of place, history and society. These issues become a means to explore the relationship of museums not only to multiple histories but also to the contemporary issues through which different groups in postcolonial societies engage each other.
Subjects Museums
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons McIntyre, Darryl, 1949-
Wehner, Kirsten
Other Corporate Bodies National Museum of Australia
Call number NMA G 2001
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A00175096 NMA G 2001
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