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Title: |
Te Papa to Berlin |
| Sub-title: |
The making of two museums |
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| By (author): |
Ken Gorbey |
| ISBN10-13: |
1988592372 : 9781988592374 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
230x150mm |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Weight: |
.456 Kg. |
| Published: |
Otago University Press - November 2020 |
| List Price: |
20.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 28 |
| Subjects: |
Memoirs : Museology & heritage studies |
| Ken Gorbey is a remarkable man who for 15 years was involved with developing and realising the revolutionary cultural concept that became Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. Then in 1999 he was headhunted by W. Michael Blumenthal to salvage the Jewish Museum Berlin, which was failing and fast becoming a national embarrassment. Led by Gorbey, a young, inexperienced staff, facing impossible deadlines, rose to the challenge and the museum, housed in Daniel Libeskinds lightning-bolt design, opened to acclaim. As Blumenthal writes in the foreword: I can no longer remember what possessed me to seriously consider actually reaching out to this fabled Kiwi as a possible answer to my increasingly serious dilemma -- but the notion paid off and today the JMB is one of Germanys premier cultural institutions. Te Papa to Berlin is a great story -- a lively insider perspective about cultural identity and nation building, about how museums can act as healing social instruments by reconciling dark and difficult histories, and about major shifts in museum thinking and practice over time. It is also about the difference that can be made by a visionary and highly effective leader and team builder. |
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"Te Papa to Berlin is a story of learning, adaptation, great accomplishment and personal growth. It is, too, a story of leadership, relevant and instructive for anyone called on to help manage an important enterprise in unfamiliar surroundings." -- W Michael (Mike) Blumenthal, founding director of the Jewish Museum Berlin, former United States Secretary of the Treasury, retired CEO of Unisys Corp
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