New book: Narratives of Community: Museums and Ethnicity

The new book brings together a collection of essays on the revolution taking place in museums around the world as they look anew at the ways communities are represented. It highlights a fundamental shift occurring in 21st century museums: how they confront existing assumptions about people, and the pioneering ways they work with specific groups to narrate oral histories, tell ancestral stories and keep memories from the past alive.

Among the innovative museum programmes featured in the publication's 430
information-packed pages are:
* African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation and Museum
* Ethnic Minority Museums, People´s Republic of China
* Galicia Jewish Museum, Poland
* Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
* McCord Museum of Canadian History in Montreal
* Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino
* Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
* National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
* National Museum of Singapore
* Red Location Museum, South Africa
* Sabah Museum, Borneo
* Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
* San Diego History Center

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