Museum, media, message / edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill.

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Museums and communication : an introductory essay / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Collecting as medium and message / Susan Pearce -- The museum message : between the document and information / Ivo Maroević -- Exhibitions as communicative media / Flora E.S. Kaplan -- Observations on semiotic aspects in the museum work of Otto Neurath : reflections on the Bìldpädagogische Schriften' (writings on visual education) / Hadwig Kräutler -- Early museums and nineteenth-century media / Rosemary Flanders -- New technologies for museum communication / Anne Fahy -- Education, sunflowers and the new vulgarity in art museums / Sanford Sivitz Shaman -- Changing media, changing messages / Mike Wallace -- Museums in partnership / Gaynor Kavanagh -- A museum manager discusses museum communication / Stephen Locke -- Learning from each other : museums and older members of the community - the people's story / Sandra Marwick -- Disabled people and museums : the case for partnership and collaboration / Eleanor Hartley -- Integrating school visits, tourists and the community at the archaeological resource centre, York, UK / Andrew Jones -- Changing our minds : planning a responsive museum service / Sally MacDonald --

Museums, myths and missionaries : redressing the past for a new South Africa / Janet Hall -- Evaluating teaching and learning in museums / George E. Hein -- Responsive evaluation in museum education / Ian Kelman -- The museum as medium in the aesthetic response of schoolchildren / Andrea Weltzl-Fairchild -- Evaluation of school work in the Rutland dinosaur gallery / Kate Pontin -- The evaluation of museum-school programmes : the case of historic sites / Michel Allard -- Andragogy (adult education) in the museum : a critical analysis and new formulation / Colette Dufresne-Tassé -- Communicating and learning in gallery 33 : evidence from a visitor study / Jane Peirson Jones -- Family groups in museums : an Indian experience / B. Venugopal -- Here to help : evaluation and effectiveness / Sandra Bicknell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.