Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum: Makers, Process, and Practice [Paperback]

Part 1: Exhibition Makers: 1. Exhibition Work: Exploring Labour in the Federal Community Art Center Project; 2. Putting Joseph Towles Name in the Credit Line: Institutional Racism at the American Museum of Natural History; 3. Miss Hall and her Busy, Energetic Design Group: The Emergence of Professional In-House Design at the British Museum; 4. An Immersive Journey  Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia & Alaska (198692); 5. A Latin American Model of Professional Training in Exhibition Design: Alliances, Outcomes and Challenges; Part 2: Beyond the Museum: 6. Fashioning the Beaton Portraits: 1928-1968 Exhibition; 7. Collaboration and Exhibition Making at Cartwright Hall: Strategies of Permanence; 8. The Re-Crafting of Design: Towards an Ethnographic Perspective in Chinese Exhibition Design; Part 3: The Material Culture of Display: 9. The Afterlives of Labels: Materiality and Labour in the Science and Technology Exhibition Label Archive of National Museums Scotland; 10. Ethnonational Identity and Mannequins in History Museums in Korea and Japan; 11. Exhibition Design and the Construction of Race, Gender and Class in the First Ladies Hall of the United States National Museum; 12. Above All Matter of Facts: Material Knowledge, Exhibition Culture and the Making of Economics; Part 4: Exhibition Afterlives: 13. Gesamtwirkung: Researching Wilhelm von Bodes Design for the Exhibition of Old Master Paintings (1883) as a Model for Future Museum Practice; 14. Visual Interventions: Exhibition Graphic Design as Critical Practice; 15. The Living Area at the Sainsbury Centre: Looking Back to Look Forward; Index.

Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum: Makers, Process and Practice offers a new model for understanding exhibition design in museums as a humal$