Centering the Museum

Drawing on Elaine Heumann Gurian’s fifty years of museum experience, Centering the Museum calls on the profession to help visitors experience their shared humanity and find social uses for public buildings, in order to make museums more central and useful to everyone in difficult times. Following the same format as Civilizing the Museum , this new volume includes material written especially for a re-emergent time and relevant public lectures not included in the author’s previous book. Divided in