Museology & Heritage Studies

Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museums Spanning six continentsEurope, Australia, Africa...

In June 1879, Royal MS 16 E VIII, a unique 13th-century manuscript, vanished from the Round Reading Room of the British Museum after being returned...

More than Buildings studies the buildings typology in Portuguese cities and their relationship with the program (the way in which it responds to a ...

Heritage in Eight Acts brings together contributions on cultural heritage at an international level with an emphasis on Latin American and Ibero-Am...

This book traces the evolution of the great palaces of the Louvre and Versailles, from Pierre Lescots designs for expanding the former in the mid-1...

This book traces the evolution of the great palaces of the Louvre and Versailles, from Pierre Lescots designs for expanding the former in the mid-1...

The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Pea...

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (195053), this book shows the dynam...

This collection provides an in-depth exploration of surtitling for theatre and its potential in enhancing accessibility and creativity in both the ...

Kim and Zoh bring together a team of contributors to analyse the role of heritage studies across Asia, and its impact on Asia and its constituent c...

Cultural landscapes, which in the field of heritage studies and practice relates to caring for and safeguarding heritage landscapes, is a concept e...

Theorizing Archaeological Museum Studies works towards reconnecting archaeological practice, the theoretical richness of archaeology, and museum st...

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, sig...

In view of the ever-increasing use of interactive and emerging technologies in museum spaces, Museums and Technologies of Presence rethinks the rol...

This book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating ...

This engaging volume reveals how politics permeates all facets of museum practice, particularly in regions of political conflict. In these settings...

Curating Human Rights conceptualizes the human rights museum as a dynamic cultural-political genre that interacts with multiple social activist, st...

This book covers the wide spectrum of subjects relating to obtaining and using building stones, starting with their geological origin and then desc...

Why do contemporary art curators define their work as ethnography? How can curation illuminate the practice of contemporary anthropology? Does anth...

Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of authenticity and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultu...

Thinking Heritage Through China explores major themes in international heritage through the lens of heritage practice in China.China is a dynamic p...