juseums in a Troubled WorldList of figures ix
Acknowledgements |
Foreword xiii
ELAINE HEUMANN GURIAN
Prologue 1
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The Willow Lakers 3
The curator _5
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The Chief Executive Officer 9
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1 Muse ad irrelevance. 13,
Troubling questions 13
Sobering assumptions 15
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2A woubled world 26
The absence of stewardship 26
A troubled world 28
Our lethal footprint 32
Avirtual impression 34
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Diagnosing the assault om stewardship $3Contents Copyrighted Material
3___ It’s a jungle in here: Museums and their self-inflicted challenges 57
The three agendas 57
The fallacy of authoritative neutrality 59
The lone museum director 62
Management myopia _ 66
The consequences of hierarchy: Learning from hunters 71
Museum exhibitions: Ploughing old ground 78
Collections: Museums as consumption 83
4 Debunking the marketplace 94
Corporatism has arrived 94
Back to the beginning 95
A clash of values 99
The anatomry of failure 102
Courting the corporatists: A cautionary tale 115
Business literacy 118
Methods aren't values 118
5 Searching for resilience 121
Resilious i 11
Why resilience? 141
Resili 143
Assuming responsibility 145Contents Copyrighted Material
3__ It’s a jungle in here: Museums and their self-inflicted challenges 57
The three agendas 57
The fallacy of authoritative neutrality 59
The lone museum director 62
Management myopia _66
The consequences of hierarchy: Learning from hunters 71
Museum exhibitions: Ploughing old ground 78
Collections: Museums as consumption _ 83
4 Debunking the marketplace 94
Corporatism has arrived 94
Back to the beginning 95
A clash of values 99
The anatomy of failure 102
Courting the corporatists: A cautionary tale 115
Business literacy 118
Methods aren't values 1185__ Searching for resilience 121
Resilient i 2
Why resilience? 141
Resili | 3
Assuming responsibility _145
corte ening : 147
Mindfulness 147
Museum chatter 148
Thinking orthogonally 150
Museum mindfulness 153
Museums for a troubled world 164
7 Museums: Stewards or spectators? 169
A brief retrospective 169
The consequences of ignoring the present 173
R ~ denial i - 7
In praise of museums 183
Notes. 186
Index 204