Museology & Heritage Studies

The rise of digitisation and social media over the past decade has fostered the rise of participatory and DIY digital culture. Likewise, the archiv...

Historic Preservation Law in a Nutshell provides the leading in-depth summary of historic preservation law within its local, state, tribal, federal...

This vibrant new collection edited by Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers.Th...

Statues, paintings, and maskslike the bodies of shamans and spirit mediumsgive material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and some...

Die Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen gilt als eine der wichtigsten deutschen Sammlungen für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst. Mit dem Gründungsja...

Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways....

Das Buch versammelt ausgewählte Texte von Francois Burckhardt und erzählt damit die Geschichte eines kulturellen Abenteuers im Übergang von der Mod...

Sich mit Sammlungen anlegen untersucht das Thema des Sammelns aus einer kritischen Perspektive, die bisherige Vorstellungen von Museen und Archiven...

This unique book proposes a re-reading of the relationship between artists and the contemporary museum. In Australia in particular, the museum has ...

In September 2009, twenty-one members of the Haida Nation went to Oxford and London to work with several hundred heritage treasures at the Pitt Riv...

This long-awaited volume brings together much of Brian ODohertys most influential writing, including essays on major figures such as Edward Hopper,...

From around the world, whether for New York City's 9/11 Memorial, at exhibits devoted to the arts of Holocaust memory, or throughout Norway's memor...

Battlefield Events: Landscape, Commemoration and Heritage is an investigative and analytical study into the way in which significant landscapes of ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, changes in taste and expectations of the public led private museums in Europe and North America to embark on ...

The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage focuses on heritage discourse and practice in China today as...

The Routledge Companion to Big History guides readers though the variety of themes and concepts that structure contemporary scholarship in the fiel...

The Chinese state uses cultural heritage as a source of power by linking it to political and economic goals, but heritage discourse has at the same...

Heritage and tourism mutually reinforce each other, with the presentation of heritage at physical sites mirrored by the ways heritage is presented ...

This book challenges the museum enterprise in China as a state monopoly and considers it as a new cultural agency that has emerged in the early twe...

Author David Saunders, former keeper of conservation and scientific research at the British Museum, explores how to balance the conflicting goals o...

The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the enlightenment, a manifestation of European society's growing belief that the spread of knowle...

Honorable Mention, 2021 Outstanding First Book Award from the Memory Studies Association Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its pas...

Through much of its history, Italy was Europes heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and someti...

An Exhibition History of Victorian Leeds is a groundbreaking account of the citys cultural history through its public exhibitions. Offering a vivid...

This book focuses on the conservation and preservation of Persian architectural heritage, including the philosophy of conservation, practical exper...

Working with human remains raises a whole host of ethical issues, from how the remains are used to how and where they are stored. Over recent years...

This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict. It charts a path through the colonial histories and traumatic wars...

The cutting down of the tree in Sycamore Gap on Hadrians Wall in September 2023 caused widespread shock in Britain and beyond, and for many was fel...

The Art Institution of Tomorrow is a unique manifesto for raising the standard of institutional practices across the world. It suggests that existi...

In the late nineteenth century, Japan's new Meiji government established museums to showcase a national aesthetic heritage. Inspired by Western mus...