Museology & Heritage Studies

Public institutions do not sit outside society, they are the barometer of time and place. How museums and galleries open themselves up to change an...

The Medieval Stained Glass of West Yorkshire is the first complete catalogue of the glass in the county predating the Gothic Revival. The book pres...

This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asias spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. Histori...

This beautifully illustrated guide to Big Ben and the Elizabeth Tower tells the story of one of the world's most iconic buildings and the technolog...

Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s onwards in response to industrial closures,...

From the perspective of art educators, museum education is shifting to a new paradigm, which this collection showcases and marks as threshold momen...

This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monumen...

Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost wo...

Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost wo...

'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and f...

A powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultur...

Des spécialistes de lensemble de lEurope décrivent les enjeux politiques et scientifiques auxquelles a présidé la fondation des musées darchéologie...

Des spécialistes de lensemble de lEurope décrivent les enjeux politiques et scientifiques auxquelles a présidé la fondation des musées darchéologie...

This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Spain, in order to stimulate reflections a...

This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Spain, in order to stimulate reflections a...

South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Suda...

The Caribbean region faces particular environmental challenges as a result of colonial land use, pressures from tourism and globalisation, as well ...

Cities are in a constant process of change and are the theater of interaction among people and their complex, historically multi-layered, culturall...

Cities are in a constant process of change and are the theater of interaction among people and their complex, historically multi-layered, culturall...

Institutions across the globe are increasingly questioned on how their foundations are rooted in colonialism and how they aim to decolonize. The Fu...

The Caribbean region faces particular environmental challenges as a result of colonial land use, pressures from tourism and globalisation, as well ...

Heritage institutions face major changes in the areas of digitisation, narrative, inclusivity, and participation. In this groundbreaking book Wim H...

Heritage institutions face major changes in the areas of digitisation, narrative, inclusivity, and participation. In this groundbreaking book Wim H...

In the early modern centuries, several European states issued pioneering regulations to protect what they thought of as heritage that is, antiquit...

In the early modern centuries, several European states issued pioneering regulations to protect what they thought of as heritage that is, antiquit...

Antiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-cul...

Ethnographic museums, now often rebranded as collections of world cultures, appear permanently problematic, even as their contexts and the orientat...

Ethnographic museums, now often rebranded as collections of world cultures, appear permanently problematic, even as their contexts and the orientat...