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Museums -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Museums -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area.
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Museum techniques -- Caribbean Area.
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National characteristics, Caribbean.
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Descript |
xvi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
Natural history = national history : early origins and organizing principles of museums in the English-speaking Caribbean / Alissandra Cummins -- Haiti, museums and public collections : their history and development after 1804 / Marie-Lucie Vendryes -- The history and evolution of Cuban museums / Jose Linares -- The natural history collections of the University of the West Indies (UWI) / Mike Rutherford -- The national gallery of Jamaica : a critical history / Veerle Poupeye -- Bermuda Maritime Museum : development of a national institution, 1974-2009 / Edward Cecil Harris -- Recapturing history : Suriname Museum in Fort Zeelandia / Hilde Neus -- Museography and places of remembrance of slavery in Martinique or the gaps in a memory difficult to express / Christine Chivallon -- New perspectives in heritage presentations in Suriname and Curacao : from Dutch colonial museums to diversifying representations of enslavement / Valika Smeulders -- New museums on the block : creation of identity in the post-independence Caribbean / Kevin Farmer -- Framing identity, encouraging diversity : recent museum developments in Barbados / Roslyn Russell -- The Memorial Museum of the Dominican Resistance : its composition and role in society / Luisa de Pena Diaz -- "Children get your culture" : museums, individualism and nationalism in Jamaica / Rebecca Tortello -- Outreach or out of reach? : seeking new audiences : the Turks and Caicos National Museum Children's Club / Nigel Sadler -- Museums and the challenge for heritage organizations in Saint Lucia / Winston F. Phulgence -- Destroying while preserving Junkanoo : the Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas / Krista Thompson. |
Alt author |
Cummins, Alissandra.
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Farmer, Kevin, 1972-
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Russell, Roslyn.
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ISBN |
9781612290737 |
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1612290736 |
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