Curating America: Journeys through Storyscapes of the American Past By Richard Rabinowitz

Abstract

Richard Rabinowitz loves museums. “I am still amazed at the magic of the museum moment at its best,” he writes, “when it crystallizes the immediacy of the theater, the meticulous scholarship of the library, the open-ended adventure of the laboratory, and the conviviality of the family table” (p. 59). Those of us who also love museums owe a great debt to Rabinowitz. As co-founder of the consulting firm American History Workshop, he has contributed to the development of some of the most impressive museums and exhibits of the last half-century, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and the New York Historical Society’s 2005 exhibit Slavery in New York.