Museology & Heritage Studies

Museum Collecting Lessons explains how and why museums meet their fundamental duty to collect. It is the first book of its kind to explore the dive...

Grounded in ethnographic research, this edited collection examines the intersections between grassroots culture, local identities, and the politics...

Wide-ranging essays on intangible cultural heritage, with a focus on its negotiation, its value, and how to protect it. Awareness of the significa...

Essays exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, with worldwide examples and from the early nineteenth century to the present day...

Essays dealing with the question of how sense of place is constructed, in a variety of locations and media. The term sense of place is an importan...

An examination of museums in China, surveying their development from the nineteenth century, and looking in particular at their incredible recent p...

Wide-ranging essays on intangible cultural heritage, with a focus on its negotiation, its value, and how to protect it. Awareness of the significa...

Essays exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, with worldwide examples and from the early nineteenth century to the present day...

The book offers an interpretive approach to the Europeanization of heritage as found in museums. In order to make the analysis of museum diversity ...

What a woman! And what a fabulous life to unearth. Zelia Nuttall was incredibly smart, determined, a divorced single mother in a mans world, a grea...

Human-Centered Built Environment Heritage Preservation addresses the question of how a human-centred conservation approach can and should change pr...

The Personalization of the Museum Visit examines a fundamental shift in institutional behavior in museums located in the United States and the Unit...

Drawing on historical texts, this all-encompassing, accessible volume provides a comprehensive understanding of preservation for librarians, archiv...