Museology & heritage studies Books

Dieses Buch ist ein Führer durch die Sammlung des Kunstgewerbe-Museums. Es enthält detaillierte Informationen über die Ausstellungsstücke und bietet Besuchern eine wertvolle Ressource, um die Sammlung vollständig zu erkunden.This work has been selected...

Described by GEM* as 'a very informative and practical book ... worth having on any museum shelf', the Museum Educator's Handbook is a thorough and practical guide to setting up and running education services in all types of museum, even the smallest, in...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Confronting contemporary issues in museum practice, this collection provides a practical guide to all aspects of collections care. Contributors cover a wide range of issues including:  conservation practice the monitoring and control of light...

The current economic climate, coupled with an all embracing desire for museums to be respondent to 'the market' make a proper grounding in management essential. The 'bottom line' is one of the most powerful measures of management performance. Museums and...

The ICMS Handbook is acknowledged as the international standard text for basic security procedures. It was first published as A Basic Guide to Museum Security, and is now fully revised, enlarged and updated. The manual covers: general principles...

Essential reading for all professionals concerned with museums and the cultural heritage, with the architecture and design of museums and for those providing service for the disabled. The volume provides access to some of the best practice in the...

Das Buch ""Das Stadt-Wappen von Wiesbaden (1861)"" von Karl Rossel ist eine historische Abhandlung �����ber das Wappen der Stadt Wiesbaden. Es wurde im Jahr 1861 ver������ffentlicht und enth�����lt eine detaillierte Beschreibung des Wappens sowie seiner...

Catalogus Van Het Stedelijk Museum Te Leiden (1886) is een boek dat is uitgegeven door E. J. Brill Publisher en een volledige beschrijving geeft van de collectie van het Stedelijk Museum in Leiden. Het boek bevat een lijst met alle kunstwerken,...

Le livre ""Catalogue Historique Et Descriptif Du Musee De Dijon (1869)"" publi����� par Lamarche Publisher est un catalogue d�����taill����� du mus�����e de Dijon en France. Il contient des informations historiques et descriptives sur les collections...

Le Catalogue de la Collection des Peintures sur Porcelaine dans la Nouvelle Pinacoth�����que Royale (1869) est un ouvrage qui pr�����sente une collection de peintures sur porcelaine conserv�����es dans la Nouvelle Pinacoth�����que Royale. Cette...

Le Catalogue D'Une Grande Et Tres Belle Collection De Monnaies Et Medailles Polonaises (1850) est un livre �����crit par Mikocki, Leon. Ce livre est une collection de monnaies et de m�����dailles polonaises tr�����s belles et rares. Il contient des...

Catalogue Des Vases Antiques De Terre Cuite, Part 2: L'Ecole Ionienne (1899) est un livre �����crit par Edmond Pottier. Ce livre est un catalogue de vases antiques en terre cuite de l'�����cole ionienne. Il est la deuxi�����me partie d'une s�����rie de...

This is the first book to examine how and why museums are political institutions. By concentrating on the ways in which power, ideology and legitimacy work at the international, national and local levels of the museum experience, Clive Gray provides an...

Un périodique de référence pour les chercheurs en muséologie et en archéologie. Ce périodique couvre une variété de sujets, des expositions muséales aux pratiques de conservation en passant par la recherche théorique en archéologie et en histoire de...

This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studies as a distinct field with its own means of investigation. It presents the range of methods that can be used and illustrates their application...

Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics highlights the complexity, significance and malleability of museum space,  and provides reflections upon recent...

This book is the first volume of the ICOM Museum Practice series. eExploresing contemporary practices in the field of museum management, the book demonstratingtes how strategic vision and effective leadership can enable museums to fulfill their varied...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

On the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, rural villages, traditional artefacts, even atmospheres and experiences are considered heritage. Heritage making not only protects, but also produces, things, people, and places. Since the Republic of Cyprus joined...

""Wood Carvings In English Churches, Part 1: Misericords"" is a book written by Francis Bond in 1910. The book focuses on the intricate and beautiful wood carvings found in English churches, specifically misericords. Misericords are small wooden seats...

This beautifully illustrated catalogue provides a detailed overview of the art and artifacts held in the Gallery of Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Featuring works from a wide range of cultures and periods, this collection provides a...

Un catalogue des œuvres d'art de la célèbre Galerie Royale de Dresde, en Allemagne. Les peintures, sculptures et autres œuvres sont détaillées avec des analyses des techniques et styles artistiques.This work has been selected by scholars as being...

How does the architecture of museums affect our experience as visitors? This book proposes that by seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can illuminate the individuality...

The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, recently emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environment that combine to create natural objects, and help define our relationship to them. These...

We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport museums including renowned institutions like the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne, the Babe...

While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about psychiatric collections or curating. Exhibiting Madness in Museums offers a comparative history of independent and institutional collections of psychiatric...

How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have? Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of...

Bringing the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community, this comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to the fore in the field of heritage, museums and galleries...

Collecting together a group of talented writers, Museum, Media, Message considers, in depth, the most up-to-date approaches to museum communication including: museums as media; museums and audience; and the evaluation of museums. Addressing the need...

Marketing the Museum is the ideal guide to the ways in which museums can overcome the numerous hurdles on the route to truly achieving a marketing orientation. The history of the museum is one of shifting purposes and changing ideals and this volume asks...

A number of developments in the museum movement during the last few years have forced museums to give greater attention to ethical issues. Members of a profession are increasingly regarded constituting an ethical community. Every person with such a...

This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things. The first section of the book discusses the...

Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety and contradiction. They can be places of great excitement and great boredom, sharply insightful and hopelessly bland. Museums are anything...

National Museums and the Origins of Nations provides the first international survey of origins stories in national museums and examines the ways in which such museums use the distant past as a vehicle to reflect the concerns of the political present...

Handbook to the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (1893) is a comprehensive guide to the Bowes Museum located in Barnard Castle, England. The book is authored by Owen Stanley Scott and provides a detailed overview of the museum's history, collections, and...

Exhibition Of Prints, Claghorn Collection, Under The Auspices Of The Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts (1875) is a book by William J. Clark Jr. that provides a comprehensive overview of a collection of prints exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of...

In view of the ever-increasing use of interactive and emerging technologies in museum spaces, Museums and Technologies of Presence rethinks the role of such technologies as potential facilitators of presence, and as vehicles for offering new, immersive,...

Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, is the first explicit in-depth study of the nature of museum temporality.It argues as its departure point that the way in which museums have hitherto been...

The Sustainable Museum is the first book to outline a coherent strategy for the direction of museums, as it relates to sustainability in the museum and heritage sector.Arguing that museums must place sustainability at the centre of all their activities,...

Tourism and Heritage in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) uses an ethnographic lens to explore the dissonances associated with the commodification of Chornobyl's heritage.The book considers the role of the guides as experience brokers, focusing on the...

With ever decreasing funding, the word which abounds in the cultural sector is 'resilience'. But what does it mean to 'be resilient'? How can organisations become resilient? An expert in enterprise, Professor Peter Latchford has been working...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Museums and Nationalism in Croatia, Hungary, and Turkey draws attention to museums as political productions of the nation-state and shows how they can be shaped by the political forces that rule a country. Drawing on case studies and interviews from...

Using the example of New Walk Museum, Leicester, and its collections, the complexity, multi-causality, and reasons for change in museums are examined and explained. The 170 years history of New Walk provides an original basis and innovative approach to...

This ambitious and innovative volume stretches over time and space, over the history of modernity in relation to antiquity, between East and West, to offer insights into what the author terms the 'geographical unconscious.' She argues that, by tapping...

This wide-ranging book explores the impact of marketization on the creative industries. With critical perspectives from a variety of disciplines and global experts, numerous examples from international cultural institutions are employed to illuminate the...