Museology & Heritage Studies

Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum provides new thinking on exhibitions of global art and world art in relation to unive...

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.The edited volume builds on recen...

Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural herit...

Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural herit...

Grounded in critical heritage studies and drawing on a Pacific Northwest Coast case study, Maritime Heritage in Crisis explores the causes and cons...

The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visua...

This title was first published in 2000. A comprehensive and holistic guide to resourcing and running a museum education service. The author suggest...

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and u...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Curating Under Pressure breaks the silence surrounding curatorial self-censorship and shows that it is both endemic to the practice and ubiquitous....

Managing Natural Science Collections demonstrates the need for consistency and evidence-based decision making in the management of natural science ...

Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences an...

Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understan...

Nominated for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in non-fiction This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) ...

This book reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site of inestimable value the Venice Arsenal. Focusing on the chal...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk. ...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19t...

Engaging Communities in Museums is designed for museum professionals who are hungry for information about how to design experiences in partnership ...

How do history museums and historic sites tell the richly diverse stories of the American people? What fascinates us most about American history?To...

This is the first book to examine, in depth, the multi-million pound redisplay and reinterpretation process in British museums in the early twenty-...

Museums and the Ancient Middle East is the first book to focus on contemporary exhibit practice in museums that present the ancient Middle East. Br...

In this book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage formation. He shows how the senses...

'Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas, and Uncomfortable Truths' presents multi-perspective critical analyses of the ethics and principles that guide...

Graphic Design in Museum Exhibitions offers an in-depth analysis of the multiple roles that exhibition graphics perform in contemporary museums and...

Pasargadae is the location of the tomb of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Through the ages it was Islamised and the tomb was asc...

This new edition of An Introduction to Materials and Chemistry, the first in the updated Science for Conservators series, provides conservators and...

This book focuses on a forgotten placethe Khami World Heritage site in Zimbabwe. It examines how professionally ascribed values and conservation pr...

Museums throughout the world are under increasing pressure in the wake of the 2008/2009 economic recession and the many pressing social and environ...

Interpreting Heritage is a practical book about the planning and delivery of interpretation that will give anyone working in the heritage sector th...

Landlord villages dominated Iranian land tenure for hundreds of years, whereby one powerful landlord owned the village structures, surrounding farm...

Historic reconstructions have been a consistent part of the historic preservation and heritage conservation movements in the United States and Cana...

Most museums collections contain a wide variety of natural materials, and a diverse range of knowledge is necessary to keep so many types of object...

Culture in Crisis The right of access to, and enjoyment of, cultural heritage is enshrined in human rights norms and the devastating effects of ar...