Museology & heritage studies Books

Museum Informatics explores the sociotechnical issues that arise when people, information, and technology interact in museums. It is designed specifically to address the many challenges faced by museums, museum professionals, and museum visitors in the...

The Museum's Borders demonstrates that museum practices are deeply entangled in border making, patrol, mitigation and erasure, and that the border lens offers a new tool for deconstructing and reconfiguring such practices.Arguing that the museum is a...

L'Art Religieux Au Caucase est un livre de 1887 �����crit par J. Mourier. Ce livre traite de l'art religieux dans la r�����gion du Caucase, en se concentrant principalement sur les �����glises et les monast�����res orthodoxes. Il explore les...

Italian Sculptors: Being A History Of Sculpture In Northern, Southern, And Eastern Italy (1868) is a comprehensive book written by Charles Callahan Perkins. This book provides a detailed account of the history of sculpture in Italy, specifically focusing...

The Brain-Friendly Museum proposes an innovative approach to experiencing and enjoying the museum environment in new ways, based on the systematic application of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Providing practical guidance on navigating and...

What makes curating feminist organizing? How do curators relate to contemporary feminist concerns in their local conditions and the globalized artworld? The book brings together twenty curatorial case studies from diverse regions of the globe.Reflecting...

Curation as a concept and a catchword in modern parlance has, over recent decades, become deeply ingrained in modern culture. The purpose of this study is to explore the curatorial forces at work within the modern opera house and to examine the...

""Editorials and Resolutions in Memory of Samuel Putnam Avery"" is a book that pays tribute to the life and accomplishments of Samuel Putnam Avery, who was born on March 17, 1822, and passed away on August 11, 1904. This book is a collection of...

""Dedication Of The Confederate Monument, At Greenwood Cemetery, On Friday, April 10, 1874"" is a historical book written by the Ladies Benevolent Association in 1874. The book details the dedication of the Confederate Monument at Greenwood Cemetery,...

Descriptive Catalogue Of Art Works In Japanese Lacquer Forming The Third Division Of The Japanese Collection In The Possession Of James L. Bowes is a book written by George Ashdown Audsley and published in 1875. The book is a comprehensive catalog of...

Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice explores what best practices in museum pedagogy look like when working with ancient Egyptian material culture.

Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire analyzes the history of the negotiations that led to the atypical return of colonial-era cultural property from the Netherlands to Indonesia in the 1970s. By doing so, the book shows that competing visions of...

Taking a bottom-up perspective, this book explores local framings of a wide range of issues related to benefit-sharing, a growing concept in global environmental governance.Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance draws on original case studies from...

Art in Science Museums brings together perspectives from different practitioners to reflect on the status and meaning of art programmes in science centres and museums around the world.Presenting a balanced mix of theoretical perspectives, practitioners'...

The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation explores automotive heritage, its place in society, and the ways we might preserve and conserve it. Drawing on contributions from academics and practitioners around the world and...

Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage presents essays by practitioners based in language museums around the world. Describing their history, mission, and modes of display, contributors demonstrate the important role...

Museums, like all other social institutions, reflect the tensions and contradictions of their times. The Museum and Exhibition Studies (MUSE) Graduate Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago proposes that these museum problems are deeply seeded...

Climate change is a complex and dynamic environmental, cultural and political phenomenon that is reshaping our relationship to nature. Climate change is a global force, with global impacts. Viable solutions on what to do must involve dialogues and...

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law sheds light on the relationship between the two fields and analyses how the law shapes heritage and heritage practice in both expected and unexpected ways.

Museums and Atlantic Slavery explores how slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and enslaved people are represented through words, visual images, artifacts, and audiovisual materials in museums in Europe and the Americas. Divided into four chapters, the...

Monuments and memorials commemorating the dead and past events around the world have recently gained importance, not least because we are living in an era in which many are driven to record and archive the events of their lives. Cemeteries, in...

Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond known roles of object collection and presentation. Drawing on studies of Mutare museum, a regional museum in Eastern...

Drawing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, Colonialism and the Object explores the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the...

The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation critiques digital cultural heritage concepts and their application to data, developing new theories, curatorial practices and a more-than-human museology for a contemporary and future world...

Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum provides the first interdisciplinary study of the digital documentation of artefacts and archives in contemporary museums, while also exploring the implications of polyphonic, relational...

Museum Innovation encourages museums to critically reflect upon current practices and adopt new approaches to their civic responsibilities. Arguing that museums have a moral duty to perform, the book shows how social innovation can make them more...

Welcoming Young Children into the Museum provides all of the information practitioners need to consider when making the decision to engage with this audience and their carers. Meeting the reader where they are, this guide enables professionals to work...

Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum traces the evolution of pervasive racial ideas, and 'post-race' allusions, over more than a century of museum thinking and practice. Drawing on the illuminating history of the Smithsonian Institution, this...

The Blinded Soldiers And Sailors Gift Book is a collection of short stories, poems, and essays published in 1916. It was edited by George Goodchild and aimed to raise funds for the soldiers and sailors who were blinded during World War I. The book...

The Runic Hall In The Danish Old Northern Museum is a book written by George Stephens and originally published in 1868. The book is a comprehensive guide to the Runic Hall, which is a section of the Danish Old Northern Museum dedicated to the study and...

Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understand the meaning of "collection" as an entity and as an act. It offers new models for understanding how...

Sacred Heritage in Japan is the first volume to explicitly address the topics of Japanese religion and heritage preservation in connection with each other. The book examines what happens when places of worship and ritual practices are rebranded as...

Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums is the first volume to offer comprehensive insights into visitor reactions to a wide range of museum exhibitions, memorials, and memory sites.Drawing exclusively upon empirical research, chapters...

Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the New Museum and PS1 in New York, Mona in Australia, Art42 in Paris and Donald Judd's Marfa, the...

Reflecting on Practice for STEM Educators is a guidebook to lead a professional learning program for educators working in STEM learning environments.Making research on the science of human learning accessible to educational professionals around the...

Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social, and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical,...

A critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary, examining their place in the wider history of European museums and collecting, their role as public institutions, and their involvement in the complex cultural politics of the...

What do we mean by 'art'? As a category of objects, the concept belongs to a Western cultural tradition, originally European and now increasingly global, but how useful is it for understanding other traditions? To understand art as a universal human...

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is one of the most widely ratified international treaties, and a place on the World Heritage List is a widely coveted mark of distinction. Building on ethnographic fieldwork at Committee sessions, interviews and...

The Oriental Collection of W. T. Walters: 65 Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore is a book written by William Thompson Walters in 1884. The book is a comprehensive guide to the extensive collection of Oriental art and artifacts that Walters had gathered...

Italian Ceramic Art: The Albarello, A Study In Early Renaissance Maiolica (1904) is a book written by Henry Wallis that provides a comprehensive study of the Albarello - a type of ceramic jar used for storing medicines and spices during the Renaissance...

Le livre ""Catalogue du Mus�����e de N�����mes: Pr�����c�����d����� de la Notice Historique de la Maison-Carr�����e et de la Biographie de Sigalon (1844)"" par Auguste Pelet est un catalogue d�����taill����� du mus�����e de N�����mes, en France. Il est...

Beschrijving Der Tentoonstelling To Magelang Van Producten Van Inlandsche Nijverheid Uit De Residentie Kedoe (1894) is een boek uitgegeven door Landsdrukkerij Publisher. Het boek beschrijft de tentoonstelling van lokale ambachtelijke producten uit de...

Beschrijving Der Schilderijen Van Het Rijksmuseum Te Amsterdam (1880) is een boek geschreven door het Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Het boek beschrijft alle schilderijen die op dat moment in het museum te zien waren. Het bevat gedetailleerde beschrijvingen...

Het boek ""Afdeeling Nederland Der Internationale Tentoonstelling (1876)"" is geschreven door C. G. Van Der Post en uitgegeven door de uitgeverij. Het boek beschrijft de Nederlandse afdeling van de internationale tentoonstelling die in 1876 plaatsvond...

""Der Skulpturencyklus in der Vorhalle des Freiburger M�����nsters und seine Stellung in der Plastik des Oberrheins"" ist ein Buch von Moriz-Eichborn, das im Jahr 1899 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk besch�����ftigt sich mit dem Skulpturencyklus in...

Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums' responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections...