A Cabinet of Curiosities
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A Cabinet of Curiosities by Stephen Weil
Reflecting critically on the current condition of museums and their possible futures, Stephen E. Weil argues that cultural institutions need to free themselves from a fascination with technique and process to concentrate more intently on purpose. He contends that to succeed, or merely survive, a museum must be able to project clear goals that its supporting community finds of value and must demonstrate its competence to achieve those goals on a sustainable basis.In the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Museum Studies, Stephen E.Weil is an emeritus senior scholar. From 1974 to 1995, he was the deputy director of the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and before that, he was the administrator of the Whitney Museum of African Art. He is the author of Smithsonian Institution Press's Rethinking the Museum and Other Meditations (1990) and Beauty and the Beasts (1983), as well as writer of other scholarly treatises on art and law.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781560985112 |
| ISBN 10 | 1560985119 |
| Title | A Cabinet of Curiosities |
| Author | Stephen Weil |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Smithsonian Books |
| Year published | 1995-03-17 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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