Museology & Heritage Studies

A richly illustrated book that breaks new ground in exploring the relationship between science and power at the French court of Versailles publish...

The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were characterised by profound social, intellectual and political change in Fr...

'Extraordinary and thrilling ... This story should be known to every man, woman and child' - Lemn SissayIn 1868, British troops charged into the mo...

The authors explore multifaceted aspects of the competing cultural landscapes that comprise the northeast of Scotland. This interdisciplinary colle...

Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for the cultural sector. Many museums are represented on the internet with various materials....

Conflicts and wars, and more specifically the 2011 Revolution in Egypt, have brought to light the worrying question of the preservation of the cul...

Before the Museums Came: A Social History of the Fine Arts in the Twin Cities gives an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of Minneapolis and...

Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and con...

The first substantial Mexican colonial art historiography in English, this book examines the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico as a sym...

This book provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the re...

The Museum Accessibility Spectrum volume engages with discussions around access to museums and argues that what is impairing the progress of museum...

The Museum Accessibility Spectrum volume engages with discussions around access to museums and argues that what is impairing the progress of museum...

This book peers into the concept of conservation under the framework of sustainability. The world's architectural history is in danger due to a lac...

The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography isa thoughtprovoking, transatlantic reading of contemporary exhibits of ...

This book discusses the development of the rural tourism industry in the Himalayan region, specifically in the region of Himachal Pradesh (HP), fro...

Museum expert Rachel Morris had been ignoring the boxes under her bed for decades. When she finally opened them, an entire bohemian family history ...

Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Achievement AwardThe pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heri...

This book is a study of the role of cultural and heritage networks and how they can help institutions and their host societies manage the tensions ...

The conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980's under the auspices of UNESCO; it continues today, l...

Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum provides new thinking on exhibitions of global art and world art in relation to unive...

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.The edited volume builds on recen...

Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural herit...

Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural herit...

Grounded in critical heritage studies and drawing on a Pacific Northwest Coast case study, Maritime Heritage in Crisis explores the causes and cons...

The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visua...

This title was first published in 2000. A comprehensive and holistic guide to resourcing and running a museum education service. The author suggest...

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and u...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Curating Under Pressure breaks the silence surrounding curatorial self-censorship and shows that it is both endemic to the practice and ubiquitous....

Managing Natural Science Collections demonstrates the need for consistency and evidence-based decision making in the management of natural science ...

Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences an...

Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understan...

Nominated for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in non-fiction This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) ...

This book reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site of inestimable value the Venice Arsenal. Focusing on the chal...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk. ...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19t...

Engaging Communities in Museums is designed for museum professionals who are hungry for information about how to design experiences in partnership ...

How do history museums and historic sites tell the richly diverse stories of the American people? What fascinates us most about American history?To...

This is the first book to examine, in depth, the multi-million pound redisplay and reinterpretation process in British museums in the early twenty-...

Museums and the Ancient Middle East is the first book to focus on contemporary exhibit practice in museums that present the ancient Middle East. Br...

In this book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage formation. He shows how the senses...