Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time, when fund

A guide for museum and gallery staff in the development of provision for their visitors, to ensure survival into the next century.

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its

The author traces the history and theory of visual culture asking how and why visual media have become so central to contemporary everyday life. He explores a w

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The Visual Culture Readerbrings together key writings as well as specially commissioned articles covering