The Changing Museum - A History of New Walk Museum (Hardcover)

This book Uses the example of New Walk Museum, Leicester, and its' collections to examine and explain the complexity, multicausality and reasons for change in museums. Makes use of original interview and archive material to examine how and why social, economic, political and professional developments affected the work that was undertaken in New Walk Covers a time-span much longer than is normal for a book on museum history with the aim to allow for a more nuanced understanding of the causes and consequences of museum change over time. Also discusses the problems and possibilities of undertaking museum history research. Is aimed at all those with an interest in understanding how and why change affects museum practice and will be of interest to museum professionals, academics and students in museum studies, history, politics and sociology as well to the general museum visitor who would like to discover more about the institutions that they visit.