Museology & heritage studies Books

Re-Presenting Disability addresses issues surrounding disability representation in museums and galleries, a topic which is receiving much academic attention and is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for practitioners working in wide-ranging museums...

Are Museums Irrelevant? Museums are rarely acknowledged in the global discussion of climate change, environmental degradation, the inevitability of depleted fossil fuels, and the myriad local issues concerning the well-being of particular communities -...

Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume offers a holistic picture of museum online activities...

Due to changing climates and demographics, questions of policy in the circumpolar north have focused attention on the very structures that people call home. Dwellings lie at the heart of many forms of negotiation. Based on years of in-depth research,...

Challenging History in the Museum explores work with difficult, contested and sensitive heritages in a range of museum contexts. It is based on the Challenging History project, which brings together a wide range of heritage professionals, practitioners...

The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media art. Because new media is used as a means of documenting, archiving and distributing art, and because new media art might be...

Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building examines the possibilities arising from, and challenges associated with, transforming heritage from a casualty of conflict into an opportunity for peacebuilding.

Die Genese literarischer Texte und damit ihre dritte, zeitliche Dimension darzustellen, das stieß im zweidimensionalen Buch notgedrungen an Grenzen. Dagegen eröffnen sich mit der Digitalisierung neue Perspektiven: Die dritte Dimension der Textgenese wird...

Displays of Jewish ritual objects in public, non-Jewish settings by Jews are a comparatively re-cent phenomenon. So too is the establishment of Jewish museums. This volume explores the origins of the Jewish Museum of New York and its evolution from...

Die Darstellungen des troischen Sagenkreises auf etruskischen Aschenkisten ist ein Buch von Friedrich Schlie, das im Jahr 1868 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit den Darstellungen des troischen Sagenkreises auf etruskischen...

This book draws on agenda setting theory to examine how cultural organizations relate to media in order to increase their visibility, valence, and eventually build their public image. Most organizations have a keen interest in their symbolic presence, as...

Creativity and Learning in Later Life examines how processes such as 'creativity' and 'inspiration' are experienced by writers who engage with the visual arts, and questions how age is perceived in relation to these processes. The author's careful...

Few institutions are warier of copies than museums. Few fields of knowledge are more prone to denounce copies as fake than the heritage field. Few discourses are as concerned with authenticity, aura, originals and provenance as those concerning...

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has been celebrated as an international leader for its bicultural concept and partnership with Māori in all aspects of the museum, but how does this relationship with the indigenous partner work in practice?...

Museums, International Exhibitions and China's Cultural Diplomacy examines the role museums and, more specifically, international exhibitions, have played in shaping China's international image to date. Drawing on theories and methods from museum studies...

Theorizing Equity in the Museum integrates the perspectives of learning researchers and museum practitioners to shed light on the deep-seated structures that must be accounted for if the field is to move past aspirations and rhetoric and towards more...

The book proposes an institution as a producer of sociality, or a socially and politically concerned and relevant content versus the institution as a producer of an aesthetics that is indifferent to the social reality in which it appears and functions.

Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate rise of a rights regime have led to the emergence of a new museological genre: the human rights museum.

Bringing together an international forum of experts, this book looks at how museums, libraries and other public cultural institutions respond to the effects of globalisation, mobility and migration across Europe. It puts forward examples of innovative...

National Museums in Africa brings the voices of African museum professionals into dialogue with scholars and, by so doing, is able to consider the state of African national museums from fresh perspectives. Covering all regions of the continent, the...

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access.

Documentation as Art presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look at, participate in, and generate art.

Self-determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation explores Indigenous practices of curation, object repatriation and cross-cultural community engagement in a dynamic Koori museum.

Independent Museums and Culture Centres in Colonial and Post-colonial Zimbabwe presents case studies that grapple with the issue of 'decolonising practice' in privately owned museums and cultural centres in Zimbabwe.

The Heritage Corridor argues for a transnational approach to investigating and recording heritage places that emerge from histories of migration. Addressing the material legacy of migration, this book also relates it to issues of contemporary importance...

The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the...

While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical...

One might believe that museum studies is a stable field of academic inquiry based on a set of familiar institutional forms and functions. But as institutions museums have never been stable or singular, and neither has the discipline of museum studies...

Curating Human Rights conceptualizes the human rights museum as a dynamic cultural-political genre that interacts with multiple social activist, state and corporate stakeholders.

U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation is the first collection to examine the history of museums in the United States through the lens of the political and ideological underpinnings at the heart of exhibitions, collecting, and...

The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics makes an intervention into theoretical debate about the nature and role of heritage as a political resource.

Mannequins in Museums is a collection of historical and contemporary case studies that examine how mannequins are presented in exhibitions and shows that, as objects used for storytelling, they are not neutral objects. Demonstrating that mannequins have...

Il libro ""Dissertazione Sopra Una Statua Di Marmo"" ����� stato scritto nel 1749 da Gabriele Lancillotto Castello. Si tratta di un'opera che si concentra su una statua di marmo, analizzandone le caratteristiche e le peculiarit������ artistiche. Il testo...

Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam analyses the relationship between museums, collections and social repair in contemporary Vietnam. Drawing on fieldwork in a range of museums in the country, alongside interviews with museum workers and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Rariora Musei Besleriani Quae Olim Basilius Et Michael Rupertus Besleri (1716) est liber qui exhibet rariora plantarum species, quae in Museo Besleriano asservantur. Auctores huius operis sunt Basilius et Michael Rupertus Besler, qui collectanea...

""Iranian Art"" is a book written by Friedrich Von Spiegel, first published in 1886. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the art and architecture of ancient Iran, covering various periods and styles. It includes descriptions and illustrations...

Annals Of The Artists Of Spain V2 is a historical book written by William Stirling-Maxwell in 1891. The book is a comprehensive account of the artists of Spain, spanning from the 12th century to the 19th century. It provides detailed biographies of the...

Current discourse on Indigenous engagement in museum studies is often dominated by curatorial and academic perspectives, in which community voice, viewpoints, and reflections on their collaborations can be under-represented. This book provides a unique...

Today, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is internationally known for its outstanding archaeological collections. Yet its origins lie in an insignificant assortment of artefacts used for study by Leiden University. How did this transformation...

Cr�����ation d'un Mus�����e Indo-Chinois ������ Saigon (1881) est un livre �����crit par R. Maisonneufve-Lacoste. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage qui relate la cr�����ation d'un mus�����e indo-chinois ������ Saigon, en 1881. L'auteur y d�����crit les...

Le Catalogue Raisonn����� de la Collection des Livres de Pierre Antoine Crevenna V1-2: Th�����ologie (1776) de Crevenna, Pietro Antonio est un livre qui d�����crit la collection de livres de Pierre Antoine Crevenna, qui �����tait un collectionneur de...

Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford Connecticut: 1863-1903 is a historical book that was published in 1903. It is a comprehensive guide to the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut, covering the period from 1863 to 1903. The book is written by the Cedar...

""Art By Auguste Rodin"" is a book written by Paul Gsell and published in 1912. The book is a detailed exploration of the life and work of the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Gsell provides an in-depth analysis of Rodin's artistic style,...

Research into the ways in which the past is constructed and consumed in the present is now reaching a mature stage. This maturity derives from the general acceptance that heritage as a social and cultural construct is closely connected to the making and...