James M Bradburne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3080648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Bradburne |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradburne |
| SIGNATURE | BRADBURNE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Pinacoteca di Brera and The Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milan, Italy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Guest editorial
The new autonomy according to the new directors
On August 16th, as the result of an international competition, the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini announced the names of the 20 new directors invited to lead the newly autonomous museums. T
Going Public: Science Museums, Debate, and Democracy
1A shorter version of this paper has been published as Going Public: Science museums, debate and democracy. Planning Science Museums for a New Europe, UNESCO; Paris; 1993
A New Strategic Approach to the Museum and its Relationship to Society
World of Museums: Brand Old: An ‘Ace Caff’ with a Silly Exhibition Attached
Changing Designership: The Role of the Designer in the Informal Learning Environment
Dinosaurs and white elephants: The science center in the twenty-first century
This paper argues that science centers are expensive to create as capital projects, expensive to maintain with professional staff, and, given the high costs of exhibit development, expensive to change. Lacking a fixed collection of unique artifacts with which to attract visitors, the science center is at risk when it cannot change quickly enough to meet the demands of its users. In the past, temporary exhibitions have been used as a means of crea…
Dinosaurs and White Elephants: The Science Centre in the 21st Century
Turning visitors into users. Strategies for the museum in the 21st century
Our museums are in crisis - assailed on two sides by changes that threaten the very core of the institutions mission. On the one hand, museums, the repositories of the real are becoming victims of their own success. The enormous number of visitors drawn to large museums by 'blockbuster' exhibitions and aggressive marketing now makes it almost impossible for those visitors to experience the museum collection in any but the most trivial sense. On t…
Local heroes – memory in action in the late renaissance garden
Hero of Alexandria was a prolific inventor who lived in the 1st century CE and whose writings enjoyed a marked resurgence of popularity in Renaissance Europe. The Greek original of Hero’s most influential text, the Mechanics, was lost early, and was only transmitted to the West in Arabic. The Greek text of his less important – and possibly unfinished – work on Pneumatics, however, found its way to Europe after the fall of Constantinople, where it…
A New Strategic Approach to the Museum and its Relationship to Society
Dinosaurs and White Elephants: The Science Centre in the 21st Century
Going Public: Science Museums, Debate, and Democracy
1A shorter version of this paper has been published as Going Public: Science museums, debate and democracy. Planning Science Museums for a New Europe, UNESCO; Paris; 1993
The new autonomy according to the new directors
On August 16th, as the result of an international competition, the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini announced the names of the 20 new directors invited to lead the newly autonomous museums. T
Turning visitors into users. Strategies for the museum in the 21st century
Our museums are in crisis - assailed on two sides by changes that threaten the very core of the institutions mission. On the one hand, museums, the repositories of the real are becoming victims of their own success. The enormous number of visitors drawn to large museums by 'blockbuster' exhibitions and aggressive marketing now makes it almost impossible for those visitors to experience the museum collection in any but the most trivial sense. On t…
Local heroes – memory in action in the late renaissance garden
Hero of Alexandria was a prolific inventor who lived in the 1st century CE and whose writings enjoyed a marked resurgence of popularity in Renaissance Europe. The Greek original of Hero’s most influential text, the Mechanics, was lost early, and was only transmitted to the West in Arabic. The Greek text of his less important – and possibly unfinished – work on Pneumatics, however, found its way to Europe after the fall of Constantinople, where it…
Dinosaurs and white elephants: The science center in the twenty-first century
This paper argues that science centers are expensive to create as capital projects, expensive to maintain with professional staff, and, given the high costs of exhibit development, expensive to change. Lacking a fixed collection of unique artifacts with which to attract visitors, the science center is at risk when it cannot change quickly enough to meet the demands of its users. In the past, temporary exhibitions have been used as a means of crea…
Dinosaurs and White Elephants: The Science Centre in the 21st Century
Changing Designership: The Role of the Designer in the Informal Learning Environment
World of Museums: Brand Old: An ‘Ace Caff’ with a Silly Exhibition Attached
Going Public: Science Museums, Debate, and Democracy
1A shorter version of this paper has been published as Going Public: Science museums, debate and democracy. Planning Science Museums for a New Europe, UNESCO; Paris; 1993
A New Strategic Approach to the Museum and its Relationship to Society
The new autonomy according to the new directors
On August 16th, as the result of an international competition, the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini announced the names of the 20 new directors invited to lead the newly autonomous museums. T
Guest editorial
Museums and Cultural Heritage (6 works) · Business (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Exhibition (2 works)