Museology & Heritage Studies

The treasures highlighted here are selected both from objects on display and those stored behind the scenes. Each one is chosen for its scientific ...

Museums play an important part of twenty-first-century life for residents of the United Kingdom. Either as places of education or entertainment, mo...

The Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum explores the key battlegrounds in the design of the contemporary-art museum, desc...

The Museo del Prado not only houses the largest collection of Spanish painting from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century, but also repre...

Passionate Curiosities explores the collections held in the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through the lens of the people w...

Published to mark 20 years since the landmark opening of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand in 1998, this illustrated book by well-known museu...

An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel Observer, Book of the Ye...

This superb artefact identifier and price guide contains over 1200 Medieval artefacts in full colour (the majority we have never published before)....

Ever since the nineteen-nineties, curatorial discourse has revolved around the figure of the professional curator. Consequently, curatorial politic...