Published to mark 20 years since the landmark opening of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand in 1998, this illustrated book by well-known museum studies academic Conal McCarthy examines the vision behind the museum, how it has evolved in the last two decades, and the particular way Te Papa goes about the business of being a national museum in a nation with two Treaty partners.
McCarthy provides a warm and at times critical appraisal of its origins, development, innovations and reception, including some of its key museological features which have drawn international attention, highlights of exhibitions, collections and programmes over its first twenty years, and the issues that have sparked national and local debate.
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"McCarthys engaging narrative together with the attractive pictures that punctuate the pages make this a book for the general reader. At the same time, thanks to its grounding in concise research and thorough documentation of sources, this volume is much more than a personal perspective as claimed so modestly by the author. McCarthy delivers nothing less than a brilliant study of how New Zealands specific political and societal situation informed the re-imagined concept of Te Papa, and of how the museum evolved and came to inspire so many others around the world. This book is unreservedly recommended for the interested layperson and academic reader alike." Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, Volume 9 Number 1 2021.
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| Introduction day one |
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02 A Guided Tour of the Museum |
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03 What the Staff Intended... and What the Critics Thought |
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04 Biculturalism and Beyond |
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05 The Museum At Work in 2017 |
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06 Learning From the First 20 Years |
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Selected Highlights 1998--2017 |
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Current Strategies And Values |
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| Notes |
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| Image Credits |
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| Acknowledgements |
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Conal McCarthy is the director of the Museum and Heritage Studies programme at Victoria University of Wellington. He has degrees in English, Art History, Museum Studies and te reo Maori. He has strong links with museums, art galleries and heritage organisations around New Zealand, and has worked in a variety of professional roles including education and public programmes, interpretation, governance, collections and curatorial work. His academic research interests include museum history, theory and practice, exhibition history, Maori visual culture and contemporary heritage issues. Conal has published widely on the historical and contemporary Maori engagement with museums, including Exhibiting Maori: A history of colonial cultures of display (2007), Museums and Maori: Heritage professionals, indigenous collections, current practice (2011) and Museum practice: The contemporary museum at work (2015) in the series International Handbooks of Museum Studies.
