Gyorgy Peter (2013). Museum, The Learning House. Case Studies in Museum Theory. [Muzeum, a tanulo-haz. Muzeumelmeleti esettanulmanyok. Budapest: Fine Arts
2016; Akadémiai Kiadó; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.14413/herj.2016.03.13.
ISSN2064-2199
Autores Tópico(s)Museums and Cultural Heritage
ResumoWe all know that museums are not just for free time activities but for learning and studying as well.This role has become quite important in the last decades: the so called "museum boom", a huge museum transforming process has changed the original roles of cultural institutions.Museum pedagogy, lifelong learning became quite an important task that the museums had to complete.The visitors became curators: they are who determine museums nowadays.That is why museums needed changes concerning not only their programs and approaches but in their ways of designing exhibitions and in their architecture as well.So the countries started to establish new and extravagant museum buildings which were able to attract more and more visitors who wanted to learn in the museums.This phenomenon is examined in Peter Gyorgy's issue: Museum, The Learning House.Gyorgy is an acknowledged Hungarian aesthete, who is specialized in contemporary art and new media.He also examines the changes of museums, the changes of exhibitions and contemporary art as well as the architecture's and designs' role in the life of museums, the museum representation of the biggest catastrophes of mankind in the20th Century (mostly: second world war, Nazism, Communism in Eastern Europe).This book is a selection of the author's writings concerning the subjects mentioned above: you can find seventeen publications examining the changes in museums.His aim is to point out the main similarities and differences between European country's museums which represent the history of the 20th Century's second half until nowadays.Germany plays the main role in this issue: you can read articles of Berlin's, Dresden's, Rugen's, Schassenhausen's, Linz's, Koln's museums and exhibitions which had somehow made something extraordinary or remarkable on the museum field.There are also case studies concerning museums of Sighetu Marmatiei (Romania), Athens, Vienna,
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