New Publication - Inspiring Action: Museums and Social Change
In this groundbreaking new book, leading museum professionals contribute
practical and inspiring essays on how their institutions are responding to
the new social challenges of the 21st century.
Helping rehabilitate young offenders. Reskilling long-term unemployed
people. Providing new enjoyment for the elderly. Working alongside
disadvantaged minorities. The case studies in this book share pioneering
museum experience from the USA, Europe, Australia and Africa. They explore
the theory and practice of building social inclusion into museum and gallery
programmes.
These case studies are powerful, often moving - and an inspiration to
action.
Among the institutions whose innovative programmes feature in the book's 320
pages are:
* Tate Modern
* Victoria & Albert Museum
* Royal Armouries
* Tower of London
* Clarke Art Institute, Wiliamstown, USA
* Weeksville Heritage, Brooklyn, USA
* Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
* Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
Copies may be ordered online at www.museumsetc.com/?p=104
Title: Inspiring Action: Museums and Social Change
Publisher: MuseumsEtc
ISBN: 978-0-9561943-1-2
Paperback
320 pages
£34.99
MuseumsEtc Ltd
8 Albany Street
Edinburgh EH1 3QB
UK
