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Crisis, Reinvention and Resilience in Museums: Defence and Revolution at the Imperial War Museum, 1933-1950

Crisis, Reinvention and Resilience in Museums: Defence and Revolution at the Imperial War Museum, 1933-1950

Hardcover

General World HistoryBritish HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 3031678052
ISBN13: 9783031678059
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 9 2024
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book explores museum crises. Through an investigation into the experience of the Imperial War Museum during the Second World War era, 1933-1950, it considers how crises disrupt museums and the contrasting defensive and revolutionary strategies which museums must adopt when mitigating crises. It is situated in a small but emergent literature concerning museums and crisis. Existing works mainly comprise contemporary studies on difficult museum experiences, predominantly financial difficulty, wherein the term crisis has been applied to describe an institution's general state of malaise. This book, by contrast, presents an innovative and groundbreaking historical case study on a single museum facing wholesale physical and ideological collapse, deploying original crisis concepts to analyse different critical situations and the pathology underlying them.

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