Do Museums Still Need Objects?

by Steven Conn

Book Overview

"We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a year, more than two million visits a day. New museums have proliferated across the cultural landscape even as older ones have undergone transformational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221559
• ISBN13: 9780812221558
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"