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Museums and the ancient Middle East : curatorial practice and audiences / edited by Geoff Emberling & Lucas P. Petit.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in museum studies ; 11.
- Routledge research in museum studies ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antiquities.
- Exhibitions.
- Middle East--Antiquities--Exhibitions.
- Middle East.
- Art, Ancient--Middle East--Exhibitions.
- Art, Ancient.
- Museum exhibits.
- Art museums.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introductory
- Curating the ancient Middle East / Geoff Emberling and Lucas Petit
- Museum displays and the creation of the ancient Middle East : a view from the Ashmolean and the British museum / Paul Collins
- Ancient "art" in the white cube? or how contemporary art creates ancient "art"? / Pedro Azara and Marc MariÌn
- Perspectives from national museums
- 170 years of curatorial practices and audiences at the Louvre : exhibiting ancient Middle Eastern antiquities from 1847 to 2017 / Ariane Thomas
- Gallery 55 at the British Museum : Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC / Irving Finkel and Alexandra Fletcher
- Unlocking architectures? communicating cultures : ancient Middle Eastern worlds in the Vorderasiatisches Museum / Lutz Martin
- And now for something completely different? Tthe renewal of the ancient Middle Eastern Gallery in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities / Lucas P. Petit
- The Jordan Museum : storyteller of land and people / Yosha Alamri and Jihad Kafafi
- Perspectives from art museums
- Exhibiting interaction : displaying the arts of the ancient Middle East in their broader context / Joan Aruz and Yelena Rakic
- Negotiations in museum practice : a reinstalled gallery of ancient Middle Eastern art at the Detroit Institute of Arts / Swarupa Anila and Geoff Emberling
- An archaeological exhibition without archaeology? Joan MiroÌ looks at Mesopotamian masterpieces / Pedro Azara and Marc MariÌn
- Perspectives from university museums
- "We are not an art museum" : presenting archaeological narratives at the Oriental Institute / John D.M. Green
- The Middle East Gallery at the Penn Museum : a curator's reflections on challenges and opportunities / Holly Pittman
- The archaeological museum of the American University of Beirut and its educational role : a case study / Leila Badre
- Beyond display : curriculum and community engagement with ancient Middle Eastern collections in a university museum / Andrew Jamieson and Annelies van de Ven
- Commentary
- Exhibiting ancient Middle Eastern art in America / Peter Lacovara.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 20, 2018).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Museums and the ancient Middle East
- ISBN:
- 9781351164160
- 1351164163
- Publisher Number:
- 99984173427
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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