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Master's dissertation
After-hours events: a product for attracting, engaging and retaining new musum audiences? A case study of National Museums Scotland
Cultural heritage is recognised as one of the major contributors to the economy. As a result, museums have moved away from their traditional role as collectors and conservators of artefacts of historical importance, to become more audience focused. The recognition by museums of an obligation to meet the needs and...Easson, Hilary
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Doctoral thesis
Towards an Historical Geography of a ‘National’ Museum: The Industrial Museum of Scotland, the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art and the Royal Scottish Museum, 1854-1939.
This thesis adopts a primarily process-based methodology to put a museum in its place as a site of knowledge-making. It examines the practices of space which were productive of a government-funded (‘national’) museum in Edinburgh. Taking a spatial perspective, and recognising that place is both material and metaphorical, the thesis...Swinney, Geoffrey N
history of science, exhibition, museum education, institutional history, geographies of science, and visitor experience