Museums in the Second World War: Curators, Culture and Change

By Catherine Pearson

Book Overview

Exploring the role of museums, galleries and curators during the upheaval of the Second World War, this book challenges the accepted view of a hiatus in museum services during the conflict and its immediate aftermath. Instead it argues that new thinking in the 1930s was realised in a number of promising initiatives during the war only to fail during the fragmented post-war recovery. Based on new research including interviews with retired museum staff, letters, diaries, museum archives and government records, this study reveals a complex picture of both innovation and inertia.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472479688
• ISBN13: 9781472479686
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"