Museology & Heritage Studies

Based on a detailed study of rich archival sources, Model experts explores practices of model production and display, and reveals the often invisib...

This ground-breaking book is the first to provide museum staff, librarians and archivists with practical guidance on creating and organizing succes...

Anniversary publication of the Belvedere The Belvedere in Vienna epitomizes the changes that have taken place over the course of three centuries ...

Arts philanthropy is at a crucial moment: many arts organisations are facing a financial crisis, the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic exposed the fragilit...

Every year, more than ten million visitors from around the world visit the Louvre s 68,000 square meters of gallery space containing more than 35,0...

Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any,...

From 1921 until 1948, Paul J. Sachs (1878-1965) offered a yearlong program in art museum training, Museum Work and Museum Problems, through Harvard...

Heritage as Community Research explores the nature of contemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. Putting forward a...

Reflections on how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices while they shape the world around us. Contemporary a...

Only 16% of the most recent Venice Biennale artists were female. A mere 14% of MoMAs 2016 display is by non-white artists. Only one third of artist...

In an age of protest, culture and museums have come under fire. Protests of museum funding (for example, the Metropolitan Museum accepting Sackler ...

The Natural History Museum, London is home to one of the world's most important collections of natural history specimens, literature and artworks. ...

The Artangel Trust has been credited with providing artists with all the money and logistics they need to create one-off dream projects. An indepen...

An engaging makers guide to the history and craft of straw plaiting, brimming with helpful step-by-step diagrams.Straw plaiting has been used to ma...

A celebration of the best of the National Trust's exquisite ceramic collection. This publication introduces the rich and varied ceramics in the Na...

Examines the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of heritage research and practice, and the underlying international politics of protecting cul...

A searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of vanishing Indigenous peoples through disposses...

For over a decade, from a tiny storefront in east London, the artist Viktor Wynd has been reinventing the cabinet of curiosities for the twenty-fir...

A cultural history of Sápmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts Material objectsthings made, used, and treasuredtell the...

Este libro tiene su origen en un seminario impartido en la Universidad de Yucatán (Mérida), México, sobre gestión del patrimonio y turismo, a invit...