Museology & Heritage Studies

MUSEUM PR ACTICE Edited by CONAL MCCARTHY Museum Practice covers the professional work carried out in museums and art galleries of all types, inclu...

An engaging study of a great national institution. Essays explore the changing roles of museums and the perceived public role of a museum of scienc...

Eminent art historian Charles C. Eldredge brings together top scholars to celebrate forgotten artists and create a more inclusive history of Americ...

Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles ...

A nuanced look at how the Museum of Modern Arts carefully curated treatment of Latin American architecture promoted U.S. political, economic, and c...

This book examines the complex interplay between industrial heritage and tourism. It serves to stimulate meaningful dialogue about the socioeconomi...

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

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...