Museology & Heritage Studies

A riveting account of private art collectors' passion from Roman times to the present Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art...

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is more beautiful than it has ever been. The original interior has been recovered under the direction of Cruz y Ortis,...

This book presents a series of conference papers which explore a topic that has received a good deal of interest in recent years, namely the materi...

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments, and sites and opened them to the p...

The magnificent building on Viennas Ringstrasse which was opened in 1891 is at once one of the most important examples of museum architecture in Eu...

This new edition (the thirteenth) provides a comprehensive description of Sir John Soane's Museum in London's Lincoln's Inn Fields and reflects rec...

On the Pulse of the Museum as Institution of the FutureFor quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate th...

What if museums could harness the emotional and intellectual connections people have to personal and everyday objects to create richer visitor expe...

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is one of the most widely ratified international treaties, and a place on the World Heritage List is a wide...

The 12th Egypt and Austria conference (Zagreb, 1722 September 2018) was organised by the Egypt and Austria Society and the Faculty of the Croatian ...

Over the period of twelve months, between May 2017 and 2018, Polish-born curator and critic Anda Rottenberg wrote a series of fictitious letters to...

In the late-nineteenth century, British travelers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands compiled wide-ranging collections of material culture for s...

Author and photographer John Lander takes the magnificent UNESCO World Heritage sites of Japan as a starting point for exploring the country's arch...

Today well over two hundred museums focusing on African American history and culture can be found throughout the United States and Canada. Many of ...

In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, ...

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

In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how dinosaurs and their natural worlds are articulated into being by ...

The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970s has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, De...

The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is one of the greatest museums in the world, with a history stretching back over 300 years and vast, wide-r...

In the Louvre you can find European masterpieces among the varied magnificent collections. This virtual tour through the museum shows these masterp...

Beyond Boundaries: East and West Cross-Cultural Encounters is a collection of essays which span several countries, centuries and disciplines in the...

This book examines the Reading Room of the British Museum using documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary source. Roomscape explores a spe...