How Long to Read Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum

How Long Does it Take to Read Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 49 minutes to read Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum by Magdalena Buchczyk

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the changing material culture in Europe through the stories of a basket, a carpet, a waistcoat, a uniform, and a dress. The focus on the objects from the collection of the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin offers an innovative and challenging way of understanding textile culture and museums. The book shows that textiles can be simultaneously used as the material object of research, and as a lens through which we can view museums. In doing so, the book fills a major gap by placing textile knowledge back into the museum. Each chapter focuses on one object story and can be read individually. Swooping from 19th-century wax figure cabinets, Nazi-era collections, Cold War exhibitions in East and West Berlin, and institutional reshuffling after German unification, it reveals the dramatically changing story of the museum and its collection. Based on research with museum curators, makers and users of the textiles in Italy and Germany, Poland and Romania, the book provides intimate insights into how objects are mobilised to very different social and political effects. It sheds new light on movements across borders, political uses of textiles by fascist and communist regimes, the objects' fall into oblivion, as well as their heritage and tourist afterlives. Addressing this complex museum legacy, the book suggests new pathways to prefigure the future. Featuring new archival and ethnographic research, evocative examples and images, it is an essential read for students of textile and material culture, museum and curatorial studies as well as anyone interested in history, heritage and craft.

How long is Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum?

Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum by Magdalena Buchczyk is 225 pages long, and a total of 57,375 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 13 minutes to read Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum aloud.

What Reading Level is Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum?

Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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