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Museology and public policy: Rereading the development of the National Museum of Australia's collection

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: The authors of the 2003 review of the National Museum of Australia's opening exhibitions and programs strongly criticise weaknesses in the National Historical Collection. This paper looks at the development of the social history collections to contextualise this criticism and contribute to the Museum's institutional history. The paper situates the Museum's first 20 years in a dynamic period of museum-making, cultural policy formation and economic reform. The interplay of these elements produced a complex institutional ecology that did much to shape the collection.

Source: Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology)

DOI: 10.25916/sut.26276014

Author: McShane, Ian

Language: English

Topic: Libraries and Information Services

Subfield: Museology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W989117232

FWCI: 10.37

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Cited by: 3

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