Museum in Public

Name: Museum in Public
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

A Museum in PublicRevisioning Canadas Royal Ontario Museum\nAuthor(s): Susan L.T. Ashley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138579262, 978-1138579262\nSynopsis\nNot satisfied with the assertion that museums have taken great strides in becoming representative, relevant and open in their preoccupations, A Museum in Public contends that the supposedly public nature of their institutional role continues to be a rhetorical one. This book critically examines museums as institutions of the public sphere, questioning what assumptions are made about the publicness of their operations. \n\nUsing as a case study the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Canadas largest museum, the book interrogates the public nature and political dynamics of the ROM as it completed a multi-million dollar architectural project and adopted a new vision of the museum. Providing an engaged cultural analysis of how publicness is reflected in the attitudes a.