Museology & Heritage Studies

Connected Heritages: The Inner Life of Penang in the Indian Ocean World opens up the interdisciplinary possibilities of transnational and oceanic h...

This edited collection considers the significance of Creole cultures within current, changing global contexts. With a particular focus on post-colo...

The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts 'A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived stra...

The macabre tale of an eighteenth-century woman immortalised in folklore as the Manchester Mummy. In 1835, the Manchester Natural History Society o...

This book celebrates decades of safeguarding cultural heritage and reckons with reconfigurations and shifts that have shaped the field and understa...

Focusing on the period between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth century, this edited volume examines the histories of...

This book explores the Artistic Records Committee (ARC) of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) as a bureaucratic mechanism that enabled the deployment of...

Immersive Storytelling and Spectatorship in Theatre, Museums, and Video Games is the first volume to explore immersion as it is experienced in all ...

Immersive Storytelling and Spectatorship in Theatre, Museums, and Video Games is the first volume to explore immersion as it is experienced in all ...

This Handbook is a collection of contributions of more than 300 researchers who have worked to grasp the Anthropocene, this new geological epoch ch...

The Museum in Asia advances understanding of the flourishing museum landscape in the region by offering a variety of conceptual tools and framework...

The Museum in Asia advances understanding of the flourishing museum landscape in the region by offering a variety of conceptual tools and framework...

How museums are changing to embrace a more inclusive vision of American artUS museums have faced increasing pressure to reckon with their histories...

This book aims to introduce in everyday language the profound culture and unique legacy of the ancient healing art with mesmerizing stories, allusi...

The digitising of Indigenous cultural heritage (CH) is not often debated in international research. A topical gap in research-based knowledge on th...

This book presents a critical vision of the role of architecture and design in constantly changing cities, territories and societies from a Latin A...

Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museums Spanning six continentsEurope, Australia, Africa...

In June 1879, Royal MS 16 E VIII, a unique 13th-century manuscript, vanished from the Round Reading Room of the British Museum after being returned...

More than Buildings studies the buildings typology in Portuguese cities and their relationship with the program (the way in which it responds to a ...

Heritage in Eight Acts brings together contributions on cultural heritage at an international level with an emphasis on Latin American and Ibero-Am...

This book traces the evolution of the great palaces of the Louvre and Versailles, from Pierre Lescots designs for expanding the former in the mid-1...

This book traces the evolution of the great palaces of the Louvre and Versailles, from Pierre Lescots designs for expanding the former in the mid-1...

The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Pea...

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (195053), this book shows the dynam...

This collection provides an in-depth exploration of surtitling for theatre and its potential in enhancing accessibility and creativity in both the ...

Kim and Zoh bring together a team of contributors to analyse the role of heritage studies across Asia, and its impact on Asia and its constituent c...

Cultural landscapes, which in the field of heritage studies and practice relates to caring for and safeguarding heritage landscapes, is a concept e...

Theorizing Archaeological Museum Studies works towards reconnecting archaeological practice, the theoretical richness of archaeology, and museum st...

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, sig...

In view of the ever-increasing use of interactive and emerging technologies in museum spaces, Museums and Technologies of Presence rethinks the rol...

This book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating ...

This engaging volume reveals how politics permeates all facets of museum practice, particularly in regions of political conflict. In these settings...

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

This book covers the wide spectrum of subjects relating to obtaining and using building stones, starting with their geological origin and then desc...

Why do contemporary art curators define their work as ethnography? How can curation illuminate the practice of contemporary anthropology? Does anth...

Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of authenticity and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultu...

Thinking Heritage Through China explores major themes in international heritage through the lens of heritage practice in China.China is a dynamic p...