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The last few years has, within museums, witnessed nothing short of a revolution. Worried that the very institution was itself in danger of becoming a dusty, forgotten, culturally irrelevant exhibit, vigorous efforts have been made to reshape the museum mission. Fearing that history was coming to be ignored by modern society, many institutions have instead marketed a de-intellectualised heritage, overly relying on computer technology to captivate a contemporary audience. The theme of this work is that we can do much to reassess the rationale that inspires contemporary collections through a study of seventeenth century museums. England's first museums were quite literally wonderful; founded that is on the disciplined application of the faculty of wonder. The type of wonder employed was not that post-Romantic idea of disbelief, but rather an active form of curiosity developed during the Renaissance, ...

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• Full title: Cabinets for the Curious
• Author: Ken Arnold
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9780754605065
• ISBN: 075460506X
• ID: 04677797
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 650 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 226 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. December 2005

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