Museums in a Troubled World: Renewal, irrelevance or collapse?

Museums in a Troubled World: Renewal, irrelevance or collapse?

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-208

  Janes, Robert R ^a,b  

^a Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley   (Canada)

^b Glenbow Museum   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203877456     Document Type: Book

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