Museum Temporalities: Time, History and the Future of the Ethnographic Museum

This volume is the first of its kind in focusing on the temporalities of museum work. Wayne Modest, Peter Pels and contributors analyze concerns around the function of museums in relation to time, inquiring whether museums can ever be successful in arresting time or setting themselves outside of time. The chapters look at how museums require a stretching and setting aside of time to exist, as well as how museum practice changes and adapts through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350103144
• ISBN13: 9781350103146
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages