Museology & Heritage Studies

This highly practical handbook teaches you how to unlock the value of your existing metadata through cleaning, reconciliation, enrichment and linki...

Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophic...

Landlord villages dominated Iranian land tenure for hundreds of years, whereby one powerful landlord owned the village structures, surrounding farm...

Every year, thousands of people come to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to have their photograph taken on the line of the Prime Meridian - longi...

The act of identifying, protecting, restoring, and reusing buildings, districts, and built landscapes of historic and cultural significance is, at ...

Explores the dynamics of African masquerades and mask performances on the continent, linking performative expressions to societal characteristics. ...

The treatment of cultural colonial objects is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a new international cultural order go back t...

The latest volume in the Metropolitan Museum Journal series. Founded in 1968, the Metropolitan Museum Journal is a blind, peer-reviewed scholarly j...

What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions bel...

How curating has changed art and how art has changed curating: an examination of the emergence contemporary curatorship. Once considered a mere ...

What can space tell us about our past? Which stories do memory sites narrate? Which memories do they transmit? And, more importantly, how can we re...

Written by an art advisor and former gallerist with an insiders perspective, this book provides a timely overview of the commercial-gallery sector ...

Nina Möntmann's timely book extends the decolonisation debate to the institutions of contemporary art. In a thoughtfully articulated text, illustra...

Based on a detailed study of rich archival sources, Model experts explores practices of model production and display, and reveals the often invisib...

This ground-breaking book is the first to provide museum staff, librarians and archivists with practical guidance on creating and organizing succes...

Anniversary publication of the Belvedere The Belvedere in Vienna epitomizes the changes that have taken place over the course of three centuries ...

Arts philanthropy is at a crucial moment: many arts organisations are facing a financial crisis, the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic exposed the fragilit...

Every year, more than ten million visitors from around the world visit the Louvre s 68,000 square meters of gallery space containing more than 35,0...

Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any,...

From 1921 until 1948, Paul J. Sachs (1878-1965) offered a yearlong program in art museum training, Museum Work and Museum Problems, through Harvard...

Heritage as Community Research explores the nature of contemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. Putting forward a...

Reflections on how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices while they shape the world around us. Contemporary a...

Only 16% of the most recent Venice Biennale artists were female. A mere 14% of MoMAs 2016 display is by non-white artists. Only one third of artist...

In an age of protest, culture and museums have come under fire. Protests of museum funding (for example, the Metropolitan Museum accepting Sackler ...

The Natural History Museum, London is home to one of the world's most important collections of natural history specimens, literature and artworks. ...

The Artangel Trust has been credited with providing artists with all the money and logistics they need to create one-off dream projects. An indepen...

An engaging makers guide to the history and craft of straw plaiting, brimming with helpful step-by-step diagrams.Straw plaiting has been used to ma...