Museology & Heritage Studies

A Companion to Heritage Studies BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY A Companion to Heritage Studies This Companion provides a gateway to herita...

This book upturns the conventional understanding of heritage, challenging widespread notions about how we relate to and why we preserve the past. ...

The rise of digitisation and social media over the past decade has fostered the rise of participatory and DIY digital culture. Likewise, the archiv...

Historic Preservation Law in a Nutshell provides the leading in-depth summary of historic preservation law within its local, state, tribal, federal...

This vibrant new collection edited by Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers.Th...

Statues, paintings, and maskslike the bodies of shamans and spirit mediumsgive material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and some...

Die Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen gilt als eine der wichtigsten deutschen Sammlungen für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst. Mit dem Gründungsja...

Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways....

Das Buch versammelt ausgewählte Texte von Francois Burckhardt und erzählt damit die Geschichte eines kulturellen Abenteuers im Übergang von der Mod...

Sich mit Sammlungen anlegen untersucht das Thema des Sammelns aus einer kritischen Perspektive, die bisherige Vorstellungen von Museen und Archiven...

This unique book proposes a re-reading of the relationship between artists and the contemporary museum. In Australia in particular, the museum has ...

In September 2009, twenty-one members of the Haida Nation went to Oxford and London to work with several hundred heritage treasures at the Pitt Riv...

This long-awaited volume brings together much of Brian ODohertys most influential writing, including essays on major figures such as Edward Hopper,...

From around the world, whether for New York City's 9/11 Memorial, at exhibits devoted to the arts of Holocaust memory, or throughout Norway's memor...