Museology & Heritage Studies

In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual a...

In this thought-provoking new work, historian Justin M. Jacobs challenges the widely accepted belief that much of Western museums treasures were ac...

Conservation of Photographs: Significance, Use and Care provides a comprehensive and inclusive overview of theory, research, and practice in the co...

This book first traces the evolution of Chinese culture, which has a triple structure. It traces back to the economic basis of the formation of Chi...

A critical first step in the conservation of cultural heritage is to identify and understand the places we want to protect. Inventories and related...

Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existence...

This book provides a global and thematic examination of the relationships between archaeology and tourism, and a critical analysis of thinking in t...

This book provides a global and thematic examination of the relationships between archaeology and tourism, and a critical analysis of thinking in t...

This book systematically examines historical perspectives, meticulously unveiling the nuanced narratives embedded within cityscapes across epochs, ...

Constant change and expansion have been the hallmarks of Swedish art history as an academic discipline since the first university chairs were estab...

Religious heritage has long been within the scope of academia, but very little research has been conducted on the heritagization of Catholic monast...

Religious heritage has long been within the scope of academia, but very little research has been conducted on the heritagization of Catholic monast...

Why do we collect? Where does the urge to collect come from? This book explores the phenomenon of collecting in various contexts. Collecting is an ...

Why do we collect? Where does the urge to collect come from? This book explores the phenomenon of collecting in various contexts. Collecting is an ...

This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Europe and the Mediterranean basin, in ord...

This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Europe and the Mediterranean basin, in ord...

This collection considers how Canadian art educators are engaging with a new range of approaches to museum education, and why educators are respond...

The full, inside story of how the discovery of a previously unknown painting by Raphael, the Italian Renaissance master, went from media sensation ...

Dublin's Natural History Museum is a uniquely preserved sliver of the past, an intact example of a nineteenth-century natural science collection. W...

Defining the Modern Museum is a fascinating exploration of the museum as a cultural institution. Emphasizing museums' relationship to schools, libr...

Rosie Strange is back in the latest of the fabulously creepy Essex Witch Museum Mysteries Secretly Rosie Strange has always thought herself a litt...

Ideas regarding the role of the museum have become increasingly contentious. In the last fifteen years, scholars have pointed to ways in which stat...

Frans Hals is hailed as one of the three greatest painters of the Dutch seventeenth century along with Rembrandt and Vermeer. Of all seventeenth-ce...

How can the cut of a 19th century gown control its shape? Can you re-create a historic profile from a contemporary mannequin? How can paintings hel...

How can the cut of a 19th century gown control its shape? Can you re-create a historic profile from a contemporary mannequin? How can paintings hel...

Written by a museum professional and based on a course taught for many years, The Anatomy of a Museum is an engaging and accessible volume that pro...

Written by a museum professional and based on a course taught for many years, The Anatomy of a Museum is an engaging and accessible volume that pro...

The Art of the Eurasian Steppe is a contextual analysis which traces the stylistic transformation of artefacts depicting animals from various cultu...

Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Co...

MUSEUM MEDIA Edited by Michelle Henning Museum Media explores the contemporary uses of diverse media in museum contexts and discusses how technolog...

MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION Edited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPS Museum Transformations: Decolonization an...

MUSEUM THEORY EDITED BY ANDREA WITCOMB AND KYLIE MESSAGE Museum Theory offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and in...

The Palace of Westminster is one of the most recognisable buildings in the world. With the Elizabeth Tower at one end and the Victoria Tower at the...

Completed in 1859, Speaker's House inside the Houses of Parliament was created not just as a place where its distinguished occupants could live, bu...

The days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are over. Museums today are a cult...

This open access volume showcases the intersection of geophysics and archaeology on a global scale, emphasising the evolution and application of ge...