Museology & Heritage Studies

Small museums must adopt policies of financial responsibility and stability if they are to last. Through an organized commitment to transparency an...

Effectively managing people, facilities, and partnerships can make or break an institution. Museum operations encompasses responsibility for the ma...

Museums exist to serve their audiences; however, the scope of this charge is constantly being challenged and changed. This book looks at new roles ...

Programs, tours and exhibits are the meat-and-potatoes of what most museums do to meet their missions to educate the public. Interpretation helps m...

Proper collections care, planning, and conservation is an essential responsibility for a museum of any size, but funding for these obligations ofte...

Museums exist to serve their audiences; however, the scope of this charge is constantly being challenged and changed. This book looks at new roles ...

Reinventing the Museum: The Evolving Conversation on the Paradigm Shift offers 44 seminal articles representing the changing perspectives about the...

Although much has been written in recent years on what museum visitors actually experience, there is little research-backed guidance available for ...

Although much has been written in recent years on what museum visitors actually experience, there is little research-backed guidance available for ...

Museums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture showcases  how the use of technology in museums should be understood...

Museums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture showcases  how the use of technology in museums should be understood...

Environmentally friendly practices are crucial to the mission of museums, which, as houses of preservation, are uniquely suited to modeling green b...

As the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Standing Professional Committees Council tells us exhibitions are the public face of museums. The effecti...

As the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Standing Professional Committees Council tells us exhibitions are the public face of museums. The effecti...

What museum does not want insight into what its visitors and potential visitors are looking for? Nearly every function within the museum benefits f...

What museum does not want insight into what its visitors and potential visitors are looking for? Nearly every function within the museum benefits f...

Traditionally, city museums have been keepers of city history. Many have been exercises in nostalgia, reflecting city pride. However, a new generat...

Ancient Salt Roads of China is the most comprehensive book to date on the transportation routes of the ancient Chinese salt industry and offers com...

The contributors to this volume examine musical instrument collectors and their reasons and means for collecting: Who were they professionally and ...

This Handbook provides a transnational reference point for critical engagements with the legacies of, and futures for, global archaeological collec...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Exhibitions have been in a state of constant transformation since the...

Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces demonstrates how museums can enact institutional change by impleme...

The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland, British Isles and Norway....

This open access handbook is the first to take stock of and to provide a comprehensive international interdisciplinary review of developments in li...