Museology & Heritage Studies

The Melnikov House, a building designed by the architect Konstantin Melnikov in Moscow for his family (1927 1929), is an icon of the architectural...

Great exhibits are never an accident. Planning effective exhibits is a demanding process that requires the designer to consider many different aspe...

Great exhibits are never an accident. Planning effective exhibits is a demanding process that requires the designer to consider many different aspe...

On any given night, hundreds of guests walk the darkened streets of Colonial Williamsburg looking for ghosts. Since the early 2000s, both the museu...

Its all Mediating: Outlining and Incorporating the Roles of Curating and Education in the Exhibition Context brings together thinkers and practitio...

Winner, Toronto Book AwardsMoving the Museum documents the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with a renewed foc...

For too long, artists have been told that they can't have both motherhood and a successful career. In this polemical volume, critic and campaigner ...

Essays, conversations, and artist portfolios confront questions at the intersection of race, institutional life, and representation. Controversi...

Lonnie G. Bunch III, historian, author and educator, founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture...

The national park idea first emerged in the United States with the establishment of Yellowstone in 1872. Today there are at least 7,000 national pa...

The collections of the Museum der Kulturen Basel contain numerous fragments that bear witness to practices of sharing and connecting. They include ...

The new guide to the collection of the Museum Schnütgen offers a compact, chronological overview of the internationally famous, high - quality an...

When residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the live...

In this book, Barry and Gail Lord focus their two lifetimes of international experience working in the cultural sector on the challenging questions...

Why did British industrial cities build art museums? By exploring the histories of the municipal art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchest...

In 1916 a clearly agitated Henry Ford famously proclaimed that history is more or less bunk. Thirteen years later, however, he opened the outdoor h...

It is not easy being a Museum Director in Malaysia culture and history are seen as sensitive subjects, always viewed through ethnic and political ...

In their previous book, Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now, historians Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley cho...

Religion is a subject often overlooked or ignored by public historians. Whether they are worried about inadvertent proselytizing or fearful of cont...

A reference for BC Indigenous communities and museums, created by and for Indigenous people working in repatriation. Our late friend and brother Ro...

Every day, in natural history museums all across the country, colonies of dermestid beetles diligently devour the decaying flesh off of animal skel...

Designed to convey the awe of a visitor first walking into the worlds largest showplace of aviation history, this Autobiography headlines the incre...

The Story of St Katharine's tells the fascinating story of 23 acres of land by the River Thames with a trading history that began in the 10th centu...

The essential guide to the story of London's acclaimed museum - from its origins in the 1980s to its pivotal move in 2016 London's Design Museum is...