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Museum languages : objects and texts

by Gaynor Kavanagh

This text evaluates the methods museums use to present and interpret material culture. It analyses exhibition techniques and their relationship to contemporary studies of semiotics, signs, and the construction of meaning.

Accession 18595 ISBN 0718513592 Publisher —
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