Reenvisioning Children and Families into the Museum: Arts for NexGen, LACMA

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Panarchy and the Museum 1
5. Chapter One. Origins
6. Reflecting on Origins 11
7. What Legacy Will We Leave on These Walls? 17
8. A Project to Create a Peace Museum in Costa Rica: A Nation That Abolished the Army 23
9. Rethinking the Spirit of a Museum: Atzompa Archaeological Site 26
10. Lessons Learned in the Principles and Practice of Community Museums 29
11. The Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, or, the Reconstitution of a History of Art 34
12. Peru Does Not Need Museums 38
13. A Mexican National Museum in Chicago: Integrating Cultures 42
14. The Multinodal Institution: Going off the Grid 46
15. The Museum of Oaxaca 51
16. Chapter Two. Conserving
17. Reflections on Conserving: Conservation and Conservatism 59
18. Conservation, Stewardship, and the Future of AMA: Art Museum of the Americas, Part I 66
19. Stewardship and the Future of AMA: Art Museum of the Americas, Part II 69
20. For Whom the Human Remains? 72
21. Reimagining an Ethical Approach to Museum Collections 76
22. Small Museums and the “Cultural Revolution” in Venezuela, 2001–2012 81
23. Repairing a Lost History in Rio de Janeiro: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century 86
24. On and off the Hill in Los Angeles: Making Connections and Making a Difference 91
25. Art and Beyond: Some Contemporary Challenges for Art and Anthropology Museums 95
26. A Museum Is a Museum Is a Museum Is a Museum: Museums and Networks 100
27. Chapter Three. Uncertainty
28. Reflecting on Uncertainty and Reform 107
29. Freeing Up Art Museums 113
30. The Arts and Citizens in Transition: A Case Study from the Pulitzer 117
31. The Contemporary Museum in a New Creative Agenda 124
32. A New “Place” for Museums in the Digital Age 128
33. The Artist in Crisis: The Artist Embracing Society 131
34. Museum Freefall: Excerpts from a Long Conversation at the Getty Museum 134
35. A Mountain of Broken Mirrors: Museums with a Social Approach 140
36. The Planet’s Flatulence and the Likelihood of Our Extinction 147
37. Chapter Four. Renewal
38. Reflection, Renewal, and Rebirth 159
39. A New Vision for a Treasured Canadian Institution and the Opportunities and Challenges We Face along the Way 166
40. What’s the Big Idea?: Rethinking the Permanent Collection 172
41. Reimagining Access to the Met 180
42. Rethinking Immigrant Integration in the American South: Can Museums Help Communities Address a Major Social Challenge? 182
43. A Rebirth: The (New) Nevada Museum of Art, a Museum of Ideas 186
44. Reenvisioning Children and Families into the Museum: Arts for NexGen, LACMA 191
45. 100 Years Later: The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Reactivated and Reimagined 196
46. Reinvention: Collector as Custodian 200
47. Tales from the Ibero-American Museum Network: Realigning the Power 204
48. Realigning Mexican Museums in Today’s World: Some Proposals for Communication, Development, and Evaluation of Our Museum Institutions 209
49. Creating Your Own Conversations in a Panarchy of Museums 217
50. Our Writers: A Pan-American Highway 219
51. Contributors 221