Placing the Museum: Toward Museum Geography
Document Type
Presentation
Presentation Date
4-25-2015
Abstract or Description
Geographers are increasingly contributing to understanding the multiple functions museums serve, much like their colleagues in history, anthropology, and museum studies. In her 2010 article "Museum Geography: Exploring Museums, Collections and Museum Practice in the UK," Hilary Geoghegan writes, "Museums and collections offer geographers exciting sites and subjects for research and teachings [and] that it is now time to consider museum geography more closely" (p. 1472). Heeding her call, this set of sessions is designed to serve as a conversation space to consider recent scholarship by geographers and others interested in the social spaces of museums. New and career scholars as well as non-academic museum stakeholders will participate in this set of sessions designed to consider 1) the changing roles of museums in various geographical settings, 2) the shifting challenges legal, economic and issues of diversity faced by museums 3) analysis of the adoption of new forms of representation and embodiment at specific sites.
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
American Association of Geographers Annual Conference (AAG)
Location
Chicago, IL
Recommended Citation
Potter, Amy E., E. Arnold Modlin.
2015.
"Placing the Museum: Toward Museum Geography."
School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability Faculty Presentations.
Presentation 156.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/geo-facpres/156
