Australia Yearbook - 2001

546 Year Book Australia 2001
Museum, and exploration of how the Museum
can become more relevant, exciting and
interesting for them, will be an important aspect
of the National Museum’s ongoing development.
Endnotes
1 Cultural Ministers Council Statistics Working
Group 1993, cited in Australian Bureau of
Statistics and the Department of Communications
and the Arts 1997, Cultural Trends in Australia:
A statistical overview, Commonwealth of
Australia, p. 51.
2 Museums Australia Inc. 1996, cited in Australian
Bureau of Statistics and the Department of
Communications and the Arts 1997, Cultural
Trends in Australia: A statistical overview,
Commonwealth of Australia, p. 53.
3 Carol Scott 1998, The Long and Winding Road:
Evaluation and visitor research in museums in
Australia and New Zealand, paper presented to
the Visitor Centre Stage: Action for the Future
conference.
4 Tony Bennett, “The Museum and the Citizen”,
in T. Bennett, R. Trotter & D. McAlear (eds),
Museums and Citizenship: A resource book,
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 1996. South
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, p. 6.
5 Ian McShane, “Building a National Museum of
Australia: A history”, Public History Review, 7,
1998, p. 77.
6 Tony Bennett, “The Museum and the Citizen”,
in T. Bennett, R. Trotter & D. McAlear (eds),
Museums and Citizenship: A resource book,
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 1996. South
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, p. 11.
7 McCoy, n.d. (c.1856), cited in David Goodman,
“Fear of Circuses: Founding the National Museum
of Victoria”, in David Boswell & Jessica Evans
(eds.) 1999, Representing the Nation: A reader.
London: Routledge, p. 265.
8 David Goodman, “Fear of Circuses: Founding
the National Museum of Victoria”, in David
Boswell & Jessica Evans (eds) 1999, Representing
the Nation: A reader. London: Routledge, p. 265.
9 M. Talbot 1992, A Chance to Read: A history of
the Institutes movement in South Australia,
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia;
P. Candy & J. Laurent (eds) 1994, Pioneering
Culture: Mechanics Institutes and schools of
art in Australia, Adelaide: Auslib Press.
10 K. McCarthy 1991, Women’s Culture:
American philanthropy and art, 1830–1930,
Chicago and London: University of Chicago
Press; J. Weimann 1981, The Fair Women:
The story of The Woman’s Building, World’s
Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, 1893,
Chicago: Academy Chicago.
11 Kimberley Webber, “Constructing
Australia’s Past: The development of
historical collections, 1888–1938” in Patricia
Summerfield (ed.) 1986, Proceedings of the
Council of Australian Museum Associations
Conference, Perth WA, pp. 155–173.
12 Chris Healy 1997, From the Ruins of
Colonialism: History as Social Memory,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
p. 86n.
13 Ian McShane, “Building a National
Museum of Australia: A history”, Public
History Review 7, 1998, p. 78.
14 Ian McShane, “Building a National
Museum of Australia: A history”, Public
History Review 7, 1998, p. 81.
15 Chris Healy 1997, From the Ruins of
Colonialism: History as Social Memory,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
p. 88.
16 Michael McKernan 1991, Here is Their
Spirit: A history of the Australian War
Memorial, 1917–1990, St Lucia: University of
Queensland Press in association with the
Australian War Memorial.
17 Ken Inglis, “A sacred place: the making of
the Australian War Memorial”, War and
Society 3(2): 99–126.
18 Benjamin Gilman, “Museum fatigue”, The
Scientific Monthly, 1916, 12: 62–74.
19 See for example, Arthur Melton et al.
1935, Experimental Studies of the Education
of Children in a Museum of Science, New
Series, no. 15, Washington D.C.: American
Association of Museums; Edward Robinson
1928, The Behavior of the Museum Visitor,
New Series no. 5, Washington DC: American
Association of Museums Monograph.