Museums in the Wake of Empire - Claire Wintle

A history of museums entangled in empire and the unfinished work of decolonisationMuseums in the Wake of Empire is the first nation-wide study of how British museums engaged with cultural heritage from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Indigenous Americas between 1945 and 1980. Challenging notions of institutional stagnation, the book uncovers a dynamic, politically charged era in which museum professionals navigated the shifting terrain of professionalisation, decolonisation, imperialism and its afterlives.... Zobrazit více