Free Download Judging Exhibitions: A Framework for Assessing Excellence By Beverly Serrell
2006 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 1598740318 | PDF | 3 MB
Renowned museum consultant and researcher Beverly Serrell and a group of museum professionals from the Chicago area have developed a generalizable framework by which the quality of museum exhibitions can be judged from a visitor-centered perspective. Using criteria such as comfort, engagement, reinforcement, and meaningfulness, they have produced a useful tool for other museum professionals to better assess the effectiveness of museum exhibitions and thereby to improve their quality. An attached CD includes a brief video demonstrating the Excellent Judges process and provides additional illustrations and information for the reader. Tested in a dozen institutions by the research team, this step-by-step approach to judging exhibitions will be of great value to museum directors, exhibit developers, and other museum professionals.

Free Download Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today (Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts) edited by Sharon Hecker, Raffaele Bedarida
English | December 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1350229466, 1350229458 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 15.4 MB
On the centenary of the fascist party's ascent to power in Italy, Curating Fascism examines the ways in which exhibitions organized from the fall of Benito Mussolini's regime to the present day have shaped collective memory, historical narratives, and political discourse around the Italian ventennio. It charts how shows on fascism have evolved since the postwar period in Italy, explores representations of Italian fascism in exhibitions across the world, and highlights blindspots in art and cultural history, as well as in exhibition practices.

Manual of Museum Exhibitions
by Maria Piacente;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1538152800 | 477 pages | True PDF EPUB | 39.74 MB

Sadiah Qureshi, "Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0226700968 | PDF | pages: 391 | 13.2 mb
In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the "savages at Hyde Park Corner," an exhibition of thirteen imported Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs and dances to a "witch-hunt" and marriage ceremony. Dickens was not the only Londoner intrigued by these "living curiosities": displayed foreign peoples provided some of the most popular public entertainments of their day. At first, such shows tended to be small-scale entrepreneurial speculations of just a single person or a small group. By the end of the century, performers were being imported by the hundreds and housed in purpose-built "native" villages for months at a time, delighting the crowds and allowing scientists and journalists the opportunity to reflect on racial difference, foreign policy, slavery, missionary work, and empire.

Elena Gonzales, "Exhibitions for Social Justice "
English | ISBN: 1138292613 | 2019 | 212 pages | PDF | 82 MB
Exhibitions for Social Justice assesses the state of curatorial work for social justice in the Americas and Europe today. Analyzing best practices and new curatorial work to support all those working on exhibitions, Gonzales expounds curatorial practices that lie at the nexus of contemporary museology and neurology. From sharing authority, to inspiring action and building solidarity, the book demonstrates how curators can make the most of visitors' physical and mental experience of exhibitions.

Sarah Kirby, "Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire "
English | ISBN: 1783276738 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 17 MB