Trustram, M., 2017.
Accounting for the museum
Output Type: | Journal article |
Publication: | Journal of Social Work Practice |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
ISBN/ISSN: | 0265-0533 |
URL: | www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjsw20/current#.VMvJZvldVPM |
Volume/Issue: | 31 (2) |
Pagination: | pp. 265-273 |
Repository URL: | e-space.mmu.ac.uk/619603 |
© 2017 GAPS. In this essay for the Journal of Social Work Practice I bring the practices of writing, reading, visiting, imagining and above all looking, to the forefront of a critical enquiry into museums. It's part of a wider endeavour to use critical and creative writing to account for museums and to clear space for a different kind of writing. I am drawing together some reading and visits to art museums that I made in the summer of 2016, in order to think about the relevance that the work of museums might have for social work. I endeavoured to be in the museums and in the reading with a freely associative mind and imagination. The essay enacts the form of my fragmentary thinking whilst I was doing this.