The Museum as a Space of Social Care

This book engages with the recent growing focus on community participation in museum activities, notably in the area of health and wellbeing. It explores this theme through an analysis of the practices of community engagement workers at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in the UK. It examines how this work is operationalised and valued in the museum and the institutional barriers to this practice. It presents the practices of care that shape community-led exhibitions, and community engagement projects involving health and social care partners and their clients. Drawing on the ethics of care and geographies of care literatures, this text provides readers with novel perspectives for transforming the museum into a space of social care.

This book will appeal to museum studies scholars and professionals, geographers, organisational studies scholars, as well as students interested in the social role of museums.

5 halftones, black and white,5 illustrations black and white

Hardcover

224 pages

Dimensions: height 23.4 x width 15.6 x depth 2.2 cm

ISBN: 9781138207677

Publisher: Routledge

Published (date)July 09, 2020

Country of Publication: United Kingdom