The poetic museum reviving historic collections

• Main Author: Spalding, Julian (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Munich New York Prestel 2002
• Subjects: Museums > Philosophy; Museums > Historiography
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• Physical Description: 184 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 3791326783; 9783791326788

Author Julian Spalding maintains that both approaches devalue visiting museums and galleries. The frontiers of knowledge, he argues, are no longer collectible as they were during the Enlightenment, when museums became a central way of understanding natural and human history. Using examples as varied as the Louvre in Paris, the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, the State Museum of Political History in St Petersburg and the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore, Spalding illustrates how to use objects and artefacts to create profound and poetic insights into the past.