TY - BOOK ID - 709985 TI - Translating museums PY - 2012 SN - 9781611321456 9781611321463 9781611326307 1611321468 1611326303 1611321441 9781611321449 9781611321449 1611321441 161132145X 1315416441 131541645X 9781315416458 9781315416427 9781315416434 1315416433 PB - Walnut Creek, Calif. Left Coast Press DB - UniCat KW - Museology KW - museology KW - Pakistan KW - Museum techniques KW - Museums KW - Public institutions KW - Cabinets of curiosities KW - Philosophy. KW - Technique KW - Lahore Museum (Pakistan) KW - ʻAjāʼib Ghar Lāhaur (Pakistan) KW - Central Museum, Lahore KW - Lāhaur ʻAjāʼib Ghar KW - Lahore. KW - Panjab Central Museum, Lahore KW - Panjab Museum, Lahore KW - Applied museology KW - Museography KW - Museum practices KW - Museum studies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:709985 AB - Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum. Bhatti thus presents an alternative example of visitor experience and museum practice to that of the West, which has been the dominant museological model to date. This examination of the Lahore Museum's objects, staff, and visitors (past and present) provides an informative case study that reveals local perceptions and uses of museums in non-Western societies to be fraught with social, political, and cultural implicat ER -