[BCMA] - Museums and the Past - Constructing Historical Consciousness - the book is out!

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Hello everyone!


See flyer attached. In April 2012, the Museum of Vancouver hosted an Unconference inviting local museum professionals to provide input to 12 authors working on a museum book project. Over sixty participants helped revise and tweak ideas proposed by these authors.



Accomplice Phaedra Livingstone and I are really pleased to say the book Museums and the Past - Constructing Historical Consciousness (UBC Press) is now out!



There is a 40% discount on the hard cover book offered until June (see coupon code in flyer).

The soft cover is coming out in a few months.



Thanks so much to everyone who was part of this initial workshop.



Museums and the Past explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers. Using case studies from a Canadian context, the contributors to this collection reflect on the challenges in maintaining and developing museums as meaningful places of memory and learning. Discussions of museum practice and historical consciousness - how our understanding of the past shapes our sense of the future - consider the modern museum's narratives and pedagogical responsibilities and how museums continue to inform our sense of history.



Viviane Gosselin, PhD
Curator of Contemporary Culture
Museum of Vancouver
1100 Chestnut Street
Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9
T. 604.730.5318/ F 604.736.5417
www.museumofvancouver.ca<http://www.museumofvancouver.ca/>

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