Museology & Heritage Studies

Over the period of twelve months, between May 2017 and 2018, Polish-born curator and critic Anda Rottenberg wrote a series of fictitious letters to...

In the late-nineteenth century, British travelers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands compiled wide-ranging collections of material culture for s...

Author and photographer John Lander takes the magnificent UNESCO World Heritage sites of Japan as a starting point for exploring the country's arch...

Today well over two hundred museums focusing on African American history and culture can be found throughout the United States and Canada. Many of ...

In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, ...

Examines the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of heritage research and practice, and the underlying international politics of protecting cul...

In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how dinosaurs and their natural worlds are articulated into being by ...

The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970s has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, De...

The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is one of the greatest museums in the world, with a history stretching back over 300 years and vast, wide-r...

In the Louvre you can find European masterpieces among the varied magnificent collections. This virtual tour through the museum shows these masterp...

Beyond Boundaries: East and West Cross-Cultural Encounters is a collection of essays which span several countries, centuries and disciplines in the...

This book examines the Reading Room of the British Museum using documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary source. Roomscape explores a spe...