Breaking the conventional boundaries with Museums without Borders
Robert R. Janes demonstrates that museums have a broader role to play in society than is conventionally assumed. He approaches the fundamental questions of why museums exist and what they mean in terms of identity, community, and the future of civil life.
Drawing together nearly 40 years of experience, Museums without Borders presents the key works of one of the most respected practitioners and scholars in the field. It charts the evolving role of the contemporary museum in the face of environmental, societal, and ethical challenges.
Elaine Heumann Gurian, renowned museum advisor, notes, “Robert R. Janes is an unafraid original who writes organically from deep in his ethical soul. He energizes us to create museums in their purest most consequential form so that they will contribute to the survival of the planet. After reading this book, his urgency will become yours.”
Janes’ experience as a scholar-practitioner includes serving as a museum director, chief curator, board member, archaeologist, author, editor, consultant, volunteer, instructor, and philanthropist. Incorporating all of these perspectives, this collection of writings forms an evolutionary time capsule of the many issues that have, and will, continue to shape the museum sector for decades to come.
This book explains why it is both reasonable and essential to expand the purpose of museums at this point in history. It is time that museums assist in the creation of a new, caring, and more conscious future for themselves and their communities.
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