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Design in Museums: Towards an Integrative Approach

Maddalena Dalla Mura, Design in Museums: Towards an Integrative Approach. The Potential of Science and Technology Museums, in “Journal of Design History”, 22/3, 2009, pp. 259-270
Abstract:

To deal with design in museums today means not only to look at well-established design museums but also to integrate different resources and explore the potential of other types of [...]

Design Museum, London
Stretches, controversies, identity

In the article Establishing the Manifesto. Art Histories in the Nineteenth-century museum by Christopher Whitehead which I already mentioned and quoted, the author also offered some recent cases where museological and curatorial projects might be read and interpreted as agents of “boundary work”. Among these, he reported about two exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert [...]

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Access to all the regular means of doing things is a mixed blessing. — Howard S. Becker, Art Worlds, 1982, p. 6

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