Making Museums Matter

by Stephen E. Weil

Book Overview

In this volume of 29 essays, Weil's overarching concern is that museums be able to "earn their keep"--that they make themselves matter--in an environment of potentially shrinking resources. Also... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588340007
• ISBN13: 9781588340009
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An outstanding selection of informed and informative essays

Written by Stephen E. Weil experienced and witty commentator on the museum community who is currently the Scholar Emeritus in the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Education and Museum Studies, Making Museums Matter is an outstanding selection of informed and informative essays about the difference that museums make, their role in preserving and showcasing history and art to the public, cost-related problems plaguing museums today, and a great deal more. Making Museums Matter is enthusiastically recommended as a most thoughtful and authoritative treatise on these notable and noble institutions.