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John Cotton Dana (1856-1929) started out as a reform-minded librarian intent on making libraries into engines of education, hence of opportunity, for women, workers and the business community. This book offers an account of Dana's founding of the Newark Museum and his radical exhibitions of items of mass manufacture.
Museums are often stereotyped as dusty storage facilities for ancient artefacts considered important by only a handful of scholars. Recently there has been effort on the part of some museumologists to reconsider the role and responsibilities of museums, art galleries and science centres as integral social institutions in their communities. The book attempts to point the way towards a sustainable future for museums by examining institutions that have found creative ways to attain a socially responsive model for cultural resource management. Accessible and engaging, the articles presented here are an excellent starting point for any discussion on what museums have been and what they should strive to be.