Museology & Heritage Studies

How can museum educators facilitate experiences with artworks that are meaningful to viewers? How might educators negotiate divergences between vis...

This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism ...

Die Lessing-Forschung steht seit längerer Zeit vor der Herausforderung, dass sie zwar ein Zentrum der germanistischen Aufklärungsforschung bildet,...

Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and et...

The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts 'A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived stra...

We live in a museum age, writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are ...

There is a vast body of international and national law that regulates cultural heritage. However, the current regulation remains quite blind to the...

Culture and power have been bedfellows since ancient timesin the case of exhibits and collections, now more than ever. Protests force out patrons a...

Winner, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award and The Critical Eye AwardHonourable Mention, Canadian Museums Associations Outstanding Achievement...

Digital heritage can mean many things, from building a database on Egyptian textiles to interacting with family historians over Facebook. However, ...

Museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe.Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museum...

The Royal Institution of South Wales is a very special organisation, one of the few such institutions to survive into the twenty-first century. Fou...

A stunning new range of stationery produced in association with the British Museum.These beautiful colour postcards, illustrated with artwork and a...

This ground-breaking book explores the revolution thats transformed New Zealand museums in recent decades, and is influencing how museums worldwide...

The Role of Todays Museum provides a thorough investigation of what museums do and why. Arguing that museums are multifunctional institutions, the ...

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bri...

This book addresses the issue of valuing objects in cultural collections, ranging from high-value to low or no-value and featuring a range of colle...

Documentation of our cultural heritage is experiencing an explosion of innovation. New tools have appeared in recent decades including laser scanni...

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

The sixteen birds detailed in this charming field guide will be well known to birders in Connecticut, but the attention to detail and personality q...

The sixteen birds detailed in this charming field guide will be well known to birders in Connecticut, but the attention to detail and personality q...

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

In late August 2015, international media outlets and cultural institutions reported that the Islamic State beheaded the Syrian scholar Khaled al As...

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has been celebrated as an international leader for its bicultural concept and partnership with Mori in ...

Collaboration and interdisciplinary practice in the museum are on the rise. Academics, Artists, and Museums examines twenty-first century partnersh...

Museum and Gallery Publishing examines the theory and practice of general and scholarly publishing associated with museum and art gallery collectio...

Canadas brand of nationalism celebrates diversity as long as it doesnt challenge the unity, authority, or legitimacy of the state. In Exhibiting N...

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

Honorable Mention for Best Book Award from the Historia Reciente y Memoria Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)Memories before ...

This volume addresses the treatment and perception of historic buildings in Imperial Rome, examining the ways in which public monuments were restor...