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PERPETUAL MUSEUM ISSUES

PERPETUAL MUSEUM ISSUES

Steven Miller

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Archway Publishing
Año de edición:
2026
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9781665791489
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Museums enjoy considerable media attention. Much is pleasant.But coverage can also be about difficulties. Major controversiescan erupt at a moment’s notice. Oddly, most are brought to thepublic’s attention by museum outsiders. PERPETUAL MUSEUMISSUES: An Insider’s Essays 1987 - Now is an exception. It offers onepractitioner’s perspectives on a host of issues. Steven Miller hasdecades of museum experience as a curator, director, consultant,and trustee. The content presents warnings he gave to the fieldthat continue to be relevant. Topics discussed touch on personnelmatters, exhibitions, collections, governance, along with inclusion,equity, and diversity practices. Definitions of community andmission are explored along with debates about collecting andhow to explain public trust duties for what museums own. Thehighly controversial practice of removing collections is analyzed.Known in the trade as deaccessioning, the author is a specialistin the subject.

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