TY  - BOOK
AU  - McTavish,Lianne
TI  - Voluntary detours: small-town and rural museums in Alberta 
T2  - McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history
SN  - 9780228009962
AV  - AM21.A43 M38 2021
U1  - 069.097123 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Montreal, Kingston, London, Chicago
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Small museums
KW  - Alberta
KW  - Museums and community
KW  - Museum exhibits
KW  - Heritage tourism
KW  - Historic sites
KW  - Petits musées
KW  - Relations musée-collectivité
KW  - Objets exposés
KW  - Tourisme culturel
KW  - Lieux historiques
KW  - ART / Museum Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Worth the Trip: Travel and the Evaluation of Small-Town and Rural Museums -- Ghosts in the Museum: Haunted Histories at the Museum of Fear and Wonder -- Middle of Nowhere: Contesting Rural Heritage at the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum -- Encountering Oil and Water: The Politics of Play at Extraction Museums and Historic Sites -- Unsettling the Pioneer: Learning from Indigenous Museums and Cultural Centres
N2  - "After visiting hundreds of museums across Alberta, Lianne McTavish chronicles some of the most challenging and unexpected sites where the idea of the museum is being reshaped. The concept of the visit as a "voluntary detour" encapsulates the way visitors travel along backroads to find small town and rural museums, as well as the agreement to turn away from standard museum scripts when they arrive. Addressing themes of place, land, colonization, rurality, heritage, childhood, and play, McTavish reveals the museum visitor as multifaceted, with locals and tourists often interpreting museums very differently. Case studies include the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum, Fort Chipewyan Bicentennial Museum, Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park, and the Museum of Fear and Wonder. A key chapter analyzing sites devoted to resource extraction explores how these places promote settler colonial understandings of land use. By contrast, Indigenous museums and cultural centres defy colonial messages in displays that adapt and refuse conventional museum formats. Honouring local, rural, and Indigenous knowledge, Voluntary Detours enriches critical accounts of the past, present, and future of museums."--
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