Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture [Paperback]

1. Introduction . Juliette Fritsch  Part I: Situating Interpretation in the Museum Context  2. The Museum as a Social Instrument : A Democratic Conception of Museum Education. George E. Hein  3. Invoking the Muse: The Purposes and Processes of Communicative Action in Museums. Paulette M. McManus  4. Interpretation and the Art Museum: Between the Familiar and the Unfamiliar. Cheryl Meszaros, eds. Jennifer J Carter, Twyla Gibson  Part II: The Role of Interpretation in Art Galleries  5. Towards Some Cartographic Understandings of Art Interpretation in Museums. Christopher Whitehead  6. Art for Whose Sake? Sue Latimer  7. The Seeing Eye: The Seeing I . Sylvia Lahav  8. Part III: How Can We Define the Role of Language in Museum Interpretation? Juliette Fritsch  Part IV: Interpretation, Personal Experience, and Memory  9.  I loved it dearly : Recalling Personal Memories of Dress in the Museum. Torunn Kjolberg  10. Welcome to My World: Personal Narrative and Historic House Interpretation. Mariruth Leftwich  11. Narrative Museum, Museum of Voices: Displaying Rural Culture in the Museo Della Mezzadria Senese, Italy. Marzia Minore  Part V: Evidence-Based Practice   12. An Evaluation of Object-Centered Approaches to Interpretation at the Brlc$