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Made in Newark

Shales, Ezra

2010

Overview

What does it mean to turn the public library or museum into a civic forum?Made in Newarkdescribes a turbulent industrial city at the dawn of the twentieth century and the ways it inspired the library's outspoken director, John Cotton Dana, to collaborate with industrialists, social workers, educators, and New Women.This is the story of experimental exhibitions in the library and the founding of the Newark Museum Associationùa project in which cultural literacy was intertwined with civics and consumption. Local artisans demonstrated crafts, connecting the cultural institution to the department store, school, and factory, all of which invoked the ideal of municipal patriotism. Today, as cultural institutions reappraise their relevance,Made in Newarkexplores precedents for contemporary debates over the ways the library and museum engage communities, define heritage in a multicultural era, and add value to the economy.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press,Rivergate Books
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• ISBN: 0813549922, 9780813549927, 9780813547695, 0813547695