Museology & Heritage Studies

'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...

Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual p...

Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual p...

This book explores the complexities of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations in contemporary Australia.It unpacks the continuation of a pervasive...

Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination, communication, and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models, and th...

This book provides a unique, in-depth look at three Indigenous World Heritage sites in Canada and their use for Indigenous empowerment and communit...

This monograph uses the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale as a vehicle to examine the development of international contemporary art trends ...

This book challenges the status quo of the materiality of exhibited photographs, by considering examples from the early to mid-twentieth century, w...

From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits ...

This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trad...

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (19041975) developed a new and multi-faceted metho...

This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings together an international and int...

This book explores the relationships between empire, natural history, and gender in the production of geographical knowledge and its translation be...

The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have wi...

This timely book explores the spatial and social injustices within our streets, malls, schools, and public institutions. Taken-for-granted acts lik...

This new edition titled Adhesives, Coatings and Consolidants discusses the chemical, physical, and optical properties that influence the selection ...

This new edition titled Adhesives, Coatings and Consolidants discusses the chemical, physical, and optical properties that influence the selection ...

Museum Development and Cultural Representation critically examines the development of a museum and cultural heritage centre in the indigenous Kelab...

Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage 2021 presents contributions on various aspects of the study, protection and restoration of...

Conservation of Cultural Heritage covers the methods and practices needed for future museum professionals who will be working in various capacities...

This book is a groundbreaking attempt to rethink the landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorising social haunting: the ways...

First Published in 1997. This is Volume IX, Number I of Visual Resources, an international journal of documentation. This special issue focuses on ...

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

Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire is a study of museums of design and applied arts in Austria-Hungary from 1864 to 1...

Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice. Drawing on a range of case studies, inc...

Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums is the first scholarly book to analyze contemporary African American museums from a multifac...

Studies in Archaeological Conservation features a range of case studies that explore the techniques and approaches used in current conservation pra...

This book examines artists engagements with design and architecture since the 1980s, and asks what they reveal about contemporary capitalist produc...

Heritage tourism is a global multi-million-dollar phenomenon, influencing national, regional and local cultural identities. Hong Kong finds itself ...

This volume examines the location of memories and histories of popular music and its multiple pasts, exploring the different places in which popula...

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

In this highly original study, Vanessa Russ examines the gradual invention of Aboriginal art within the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This proces...

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History offers a broad survey of cutting-edge intersections between digital technologies and ...

It is widely believed that the practice of ancient Egyptian religion ceased with the end of pharaonic culture and the rise of Christianity. However...

Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophic...

This book explores the effects of the Instagram platform on the making and viewing of art.Authors Lachlan MacDowall and Kylie Budge critically anal...