# Making Museums Matter

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- Book: [Making Museums Matter](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-weil/making-museums-matter) ([Making Museums Matter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-weil/making-museums-matter.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Weil](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-weil)
- Publisher: smithsonian_books
- ISBN: 978-15-8834-000-9
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2002-02-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this volume of 29 essays, Weil's overarching concern is that museums be able to “earn their keep”—that they make themselves matter—in an environment of potentially shrinking...