Behind the scenes at the Science Museum /

• Main Author: Macdonald, Sharon (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2002.
• Series: Materializing culture
• Subjects: Science Museum (Μεγάλη Βρετανία); Επιστήμη > Αγγλία > Λονδίνο > Εκθέσεις; Μουσεία; Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία

Table of Contents:

• Admission : going in
• Cultural revolution in South Kensington
• A new vision for the 21st century : rewriting the museum
• A 'hot potato' for a new public: a 'flagship' exhibition on food
• 'Reality sets in' : managing and materialising dreams (and negotiating nightmares)
• Virtual consumers and supermarket science
• Opening and aftermath : ritual, reviews and reflection
• The active audience and the politics of appropriation
• Behind and beyond the scenes.