Museology & Heritage Studies

Imperial tombs, Buddhist architecture, palaces, and art treasures in Korea and Japan have attracted scholars, collectors, and conservatorsand milli...

Case-studies of whether and how heritage can be used to bring about reconciliation. This volume explores one of the most critical issues of our ti...

A survey of the theory and methods of conservation from the nineteenth century to the present day, highlighting future pathways. The origins and u...

The difficult and sensitive issue of how museums and other repositories should treat human remains in their possession is here addressed through a ...

International, multi-disciplinary perspectives on the key question of community engagement in theory and practice in a diverse range of heritage se...

Essays on aspects of the natural world, its heritage, and how best to preserve it. Europe's engagement from the late sixteenth century onwards in ...

The bog bodies of north-western Europe have captured the imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come face-to-face with indi...

During the late twentieth century, the number of museums in the UK dramatically increased. Typically small and independent, the new museums concent...

This book introduces the multilevel perspective to analyze how local, national, and international actors and institutions in the heritage field int...

This book frames the many-sided fragilities of Hunan Provinces Heritage. It originates from a ten-year-long international cooperation between Polit...

This open access edited book attempts to break new ground in investigating multiple facets of Vietnamese language, education and change in global c...

Well known for its world-renowned art museums - from the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston - Massachusetts i...

The fate of heritage in war has attracted considerable attention in recent years, due in no small part to ISIS's campaign of destruction across the...

'An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guid...

This book provides a detailed and carefully researched catalogue of over 140 manuscripts related to the Mevlevi Sufis in their formative period dur...

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

A collection of first-person narratives offering a vivid, nuanced look at the lived and shared experiences of Bering Strait communities in the COVI...

A collection of first-person narratives offering a vivid, nuanced look at the lived and shared experiences of Bering Strait communities in the COVI...

This book compiles a curated selection of texts authored by architects and scholars hailing from Asia, Europe, and North America. Their research, o...

'An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guid...

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African Ameri...

Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Re...

Exhibitions for Social Justice assesses the state of curatorial work for social justice in the Americas and Europe today. Analyzing best practices ...

The internet as a platform for facilitating human organization without the need for organizations has, through social media, created new challenges...

Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the wa...

Originally published in 1947, The Vertical Man explores a form of Indian sculpture largely ignored in other studies, with a focus on two kinds of s...

For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from th...

With disappearing music venues, and arts and culture communities at constant risk of displacement in our urban centers, the preservation of intangi...

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African Ameri...