Museology & Heritage Studies

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition; the Dalai Lama, spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum...

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments, and sites and opened them to the p...

Since its foundation in 1602, the Bodleian Library has acquired manuscripts, printed books, maps, music and ephemera in all languages, from all age...

First book to highlight the collection of this newly renovated museum. The Adirondack region draws between 7 and 10 million visitors per year. Prov...

Most up-to-date book available on one of the most important museums in the United States. A visitor-friendly handbook that serves as a souvenir of ...

Latest volume (first in Canada) of Scala's successful series of walking guides. Invaluable companion to a museum whose focus is on an interactive e...

India is home to a range of folk and tribal artists, from rich and varied cultural backgrounds. Much of what we learn about these communities - who...

To speak of restoration in relation to contemporary art seems almost oxymoronic. On the one hand, it is commonly assumed that the art produced in o...

American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the ...

History Today carried a feature in 2015, describing The Origin of Museums as a cult book [that] spawned a new discipline in the history of collecti...

With this book, museum professionals can learn how to unleash creative potential throughout their institution. Drawing from a wide range of researc...

Ever since the 1910s Zurich Kunstgewerbemuseum, or Museum of Arts & Crafts - which was founded in 1875 and is known today as the Museum fur Ges...

Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturiers new range. Today, design houses are ...

Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturiers new range. Today, design houses are ...

The volume is dedicated to the Sacri Monti, the ''Sacred Mountains'', of Piedmont and Lombardy - Varallo, Orta, Crea, Varese, Oropa, Ossuccio, Ghif...

Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world t...

Hadrians Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale...