TY - SER
AU - Tony Bennett
CY - London, England
LA - English
N1 - Focus on museums in Britain, Australia, and the United States.

Contents:
History and Theory. 
The formation of the museum 
The exhibitionary complex 
The political rationality of the museum 

Policies and Politics. 
Museums and 'the people' 
Out of which past? 
Art and theory : the politics of the invisible 

Technologies of Progress. 
Museums and progress : narrative, ideology, performance 
The shaping of things to come : Expo '88
A thousand and one troubles : Blackpool Pleasure Beach
PB - Routledge
PP - London, England
PY - 1995
SN - 9780415053877
EP - 278 pp.
TI - The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics
ER -