The 1980s and early 1990s have seen a marked increase in public interest in our historic
environment. The museum and heritage industry has expanded as the past is exploited for …

In recent decades there has been an international boom in new museums and memorials,
many of which are concerned with history and the past, and many of which have been …

Heritage Page 1 Heritage Steven Hoelscher Among the innumerable tragedies of the 2003
United States-led coalition invasion of Iraq, the widespread destruction and looting of the …

Heritage is a resource as well as a product. This chapter considers the origins of heritage as
defined by using the past as a resource for the present. It shows how this way of thinking …

Museums are conventionally viewed as institutions dedicated to the conservation of valued
objects and the education of the public. Recently, controversies have arisen regarding the …

This essay seeks to explore the complex relationship between history museums, memory,
history and audiences. I have focused on museum practice, rather than the theoretical …

Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated
objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between …

On any given summer afternoon, a considerable number of Americans go to visit the past.
They drive to Greenfield Village, or Colonial Williamsburg, or Old Sturbridge. There they …

The book is the result of a nationwide survey in the UK that measured public use of and
attitudes to the past, archaeology and collecting. The author reviews this research in the light …

Public history is turned toward the future no less than the past. Little discussion exists as to
how practices of public history might foster new ways to live with the presence of history …