Museology & Heritage Studies

So you're the one getting this gift? Lucky you! Someone who knows you has visited the museum. They searched out things they thought you would care ...

This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces: the domestic interior and its image...

One of the untold stories of the American military occupation of Japan, from 1945 to 1952, is that of efforts by the Arts and Monuments Division of...

Teylers Museum was founded in 1784 and soon thereafter became one of the most important centres of Dutch science. The Museums first director, Marti...

How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for sc...

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

Mosque examines the history, culture, evolution and functions of the Muslim house of worship through the prism of its artistic objects and architec...

The latest volume in the Metropolitan Museum Journal series. Founded in 1968, the Metropolitan Museum Journal is a blind, peer-reviewed scholarly j...

a very accessible book aimed both at museum studies students and at museum professionals wishing to understand and engage with the use of the web a...

Illustration and Heritage explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative practice and examines the pot...

a very accessible book aimed both at museum studies students and at museum professionals wishing to understand and engage with the use of the web a...

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

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

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

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...

Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage examines various notions of property in relation to intangible cultural h...

Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theoriesRevisiting McKeithen Weeden Island...

Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theoriesRevisiting McKeithen Weeden Island...

Harald Szeemann (19332005) ist eine der prägendsten Figuren der neueren Ausstellungsgeschichte: Als Ausstellungsmacher unter Kuratoren fasziniert...

Museum Collecting Lessons explains how and why museums meet their fundamental duty to collect. It is the first book of its kind to explore the dive...

Grounded in ethnographic research, this edited collection examines the intersections between grassroots culture, local identities, and the politics...

Wide-ranging essays on intangible cultural heritage, with a focus on its negotiation, its value, and how to protect it. Awareness of the significa...

Essays exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, with worldwide examples and from the early nineteenth century to the present day...

Essays dealing with the question of how sense of place is constructed, in a variety of locations and media. The term sense of place is an importan...

An examination of museums in China, surveying their development from the nineteenth century, and looking in particular at their incredible recent p...

Wide-ranging essays on intangible cultural heritage, with a focus on its negotiation, its value, and how to protect it. Awareness of the significa...

Essays exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, with worldwide examples and from the early nineteenth century to the present day...

The book offers an interpretive approach to the Europeanization of heritage as found in museums. In order to make the analysis of museum diversity ...

What a woman! And what a fabulous life to unearth. Zelia Nuttall was incredibly smart, determined, a divorced single mother in a mans world, a grea...