Museology & Heritage Studies

This highly practical handbook teaches you how to unlock the value of your existing metadata through cleaning, reconciliation, enrichment and linki...

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

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

Every year, thousands of people come to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to have their photograph taken on the line of the Prime Meridian - longi...

The act of identifying, protecting, restoring, and reusing buildings, districts, and built landscapes of historic and cultural significance is, at ...

Explores the dynamics of African masquerades and mask performances on the continent, linking performative expressions to societal characteristics. ...

The treatment of cultural colonial objects is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a new international cultural order go back t...

The latest volume in the Metropolitan Museum Journal series. Founded in 1968, the Metropolitan Museum Journal is a blind, peer-reviewed scholarly j...

What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions bel...

How curating has changed art and how art has changed curating: an examination of the emergence contemporary curatorship. Once considered a mere ...

What can space tell us about our past? Which stories do memory sites narrate? Which memories do they transmit? And, more importantly, how can we re...

Written by an art advisor and former gallerist with an insiders perspective, this book provides a timely overview of the commercial-gallery sector ...

Nina Möntmann's timely book extends the decolonisation debate to the institutions of contemporary art. In a thoughtfully articulated text, illustra...