Museology & Heritage Studies

What are museums for? How far should museums shift from their traditional focus on high culture to explore popular culture? How can the passion peo...

The scientific and technological advances that influence the protection of cultural heritage are developing at an ever-increasing pace. Systems to ...

Decolonising the Mediterranean means, first and foremost, investigating how the legacy of colonial rule over bodies and land has been used by other...

Owen Jones (18091874), a prolific architect, designer, illustrator and printer, was recognised during his lifetime as one of the most influential c...

The private collectors museum has become a phenomenon of the 21st century. There are some 400 of them around the world, and an astonishing 70% of t...

The treasures highlighted here are selected both from objects on display and those stored behind the scenes. Each one is chosen for its scientific ...

Museums play an important part of twenty-first-century life for residents of the United Kingdom. Either as places of education or entertainment, mo...

The Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum explores the key battlegrounds in the design of the contemporary-art museum, desc...

The Museo del Prado not only houses the largest collection of Spanish painting from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century, but also repre...

Passionate Curiosities explores the collections held in the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through the lens of the people w...

Published to mark 20 years since the landmark opening of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand in 1998, this illustrated book by well-known museu...