CODE | WORDS (2015)
Edited by Ed Rodley, Associate Director of Integrated Media, Peabody Essex Museum; Robert Stein, Deputy Director, Dallas Museum of Art; and Suse Cairns, Digital Content Manager at The Baltimore Museum of Art.
Among the key issues which CODE | WORDS explores are:
- Making the value statement for museums in a digital age: How can museums determine what’s important and not just what’s easy?
- The politics of new technologies: How do we balance the shifting equations of power, audience, and authority?
- Dialogue and discourse in museums: Who’s talking and who’s listening?
- Creativity, innovation, and technology: Is there a relationship between the three that’s unique to museums?
- Digital curation: What does it mean to collect and preserve digital media, art, and information?
- New digital technologies won’t solve all the problems in the world, or the museum, nor will they destroy everything we hold dear. Things will change, as they always do. How will we respond to those changes in a deliberate manner?
Publisher: Museums, Etc. ISBN 978-1-910144-71-8 [paperback] | 978-1-910144-72-5 [hardback]
The Art of Commemoration and America’s First Rural Cemetery: Mount Auburn’s Significant Monument Collection (2015)
By Melissa Banta with Meg L. Winslow, Introductory essay by David B. Dearinger. Foreword by Dave Barnett, President and CEO of Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Before the establishment of Boston’s public art museums, Mount Auburn Cemetery, founded in 1831, offered one of the few venues where the public could behold the work of European as well as the first generation of American sculptors and monument carvers. The first large-scale designed landscape open to the public in the country, Mount Auburn was a virtual outdoor museum—an interwoven tapestry of art and nature—featuring memorials by artists such as Thomas Crawford, Stanford White, and Edmonia Lewis.
Publisher: Friends of Mount Auburn. ISBN: 0977978222/978-0-9779782-2-9.
A Passion for Preservation: Katherine Warren and the Shaping of Modern Newport (2015)
By Alyssa Lozupone, Preservation Policy Research Specialist,he Preservation Society of Newport County.
Today, Newport is renowned as one of the most historically significant and architecturally intact cities in America. In the years following World War II, this heritage was under siege; the city’s rich collection of colonial buildings and Gilded Age mansions was threatened by demolition and redevelopment. Katherine Warren, California-born and New Orleans–bred, intervened by galvanizing her adopted community around the protection of its architectural heritage and, in doing so, contributed greatly to the city’s revitalization.
Publisher: Commonwealth Editions. ISBN-10: 1938700090/ISBN-13: 978-1938700095
Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites and Museums (2015)
By Sarah Sutton, Sustainable Museums
Growing public interest in environmental sustainability is a gift to historic sites and museums. It is an invitation to use our knowledge, collections, and sites to discuss how human practices and interactions with the environment in past were – and were not – environmentally sustainable. Being green still has a great deal to do with using less energy, buying less stuff, and recycling more, but now sustainability just as important in strategic planning, interpretation and public engagement.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers/AASLH. ISBN: 978-0-7591-2415-8/ 978-0-7591-2443-1/ 978-0-7591-2416-5
Interpreting Food at Museums and Historic Sites (2015)
By Michelle Moon, Assistant Director for Adult Programs, Peabody Essex Museum
Interpreting Food History offers a framework for understanding the big ideas in food history, suggesting best practices for linking objects, exhibits and demonstrations with the larger story of change in food production and consumption over the past two centuries - a story in which your visitors can see themselves, and explore their own relationships to food. This book can help you develop food interpretation with depth and significance, making relevant connections to contemporary issues and visitor interests.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers/AASLH. ISBN: 978-1-4422-5720-7/ 978-1-4422-5721-4/978-1-4422-5722-1
