Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present

by Steven D. Lubar

Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our senses and orchestrate our impressions, balancing presentation and preservation, information and emotion. Curators consider visitors' interactions with objects and with one another, how our bodies move through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674971043
• ISBN13: 9780674971042
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"